In this lesson you will be challenged to preach Christ crucified just as Paul did. The emphasis of our preaching must be Christ and the meaning of his death. This material was borrowed from Jim McGuiggan in his book The Dragon Slayer, chapter 1: The Crux of the Matter. For a much better understanding, I strongly encourage reading this book.

1. We
Preach
christ
crucified!
1 Corinthians 1:23

6. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,
but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block
to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who
are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the
power of God and the wisdom of God.
1 Corinthians 1:22-24

7. We Preach Christ Crucified
For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,
but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block
to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who
are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the
power of God and the wisdom of God.
1 Corinthians 1:22-24

8. We Preach Christ Crucified

9. We Preach Christ Crucified
“These are my words that I spoke to you while I
was still with you, that everything written about
me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the
Psalms must be fulfilled.”
Luke 24:44

10. We Preach Christ Crucified
“Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer
and on the third day rise from the dead, and that
repentance and forgiveness of sins should be
proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning
from Jerusalem.”
Luke 24:46-47

11. We Preach Christ Crucified
“Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of
Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with
mighty works and wonders and signs that God
did through him in your midst, as you yourselves
know—this Jesus, delivered up according to the
definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you
crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.
Acts 2:22-24

12. We Preach Christ Crucified
Let all the house of Israel therefore know for
certain that God has made him both Lord and
Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
Acts 2:36

13. We Preach Christ Crucified
For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus
Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for
Jesus' sake.
2 Corinthians 4:5

14. We Preach Christ Crucified
For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus
Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for
Jesus' sake.
2 Corinthians 4:5

15. We Preach Christ Crucified

16. We Preach Christ Crucified

17. We Preach Christ Crucified
this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite
plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified
and killed by the hands of lawless men.
Acts 2:23

18. We Preach Christ Crucified

19. We Preach Christ Crucified
this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite
plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified
and killed by the hands of lawless men.
Acts 2:23

20. We Preach Christ Crucified
And being found in human form, he humbled
himself by becoming obedient to the point of
death, even death on a cross.
Philippians 2:8

21. We Preach Christ Crucified
But we see him who for a little while was made
lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned
with glory and honor because of the suffering of
death, so that by the grace of God he might taste
death for everyone.
Hebrews 2:9

22. We Preach Christ Crucified
the accuser of our brothers has been thrown
down, who accuses them day and night before
our God. And they have conquered him by the
blood of the Lamb
Revelation 12:10-11

23. We Preach Christ Crucified
“Jesus’ death was not so much his getting what
we deserved, as it is the Holy Father getting what
He deserved.”
Jim McGuiggan
The Dragon Slayer, p. 15

24. We Preach Christ Crucified

25. We Preach Christ Crucified

26. We Preach Christ Crucified
For Christ did not send me to baptize but to
preach the gospel, and not with words of
eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be
emptied of its power.
1 Corinthians 1:17

27. We Preach Christ Crucified
But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show
that the surpassing power belongs to God and
not to us.
2 Corinthians 4:7

28. We Preach Christ Crucified
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are
perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the
power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:18

29. We Preach Christ Crucified
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross
of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has
been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Galatians 6:14

30. We Preach Christ Crucified
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross
of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has
been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Galatians 6:14

31. We Preach Christ Crucified

32. We Preach Christ Crucified
Do we?
Will we?

33. We Preach Christ Crucified

34. Will today be the day
you decide
to go to
heaven?

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36. Everyday Evangelism
Compiled and Presented by:
Dave Stewart
5 January, 2014
www.churchofchristmiranda.com
#02
We Preach Christ Crucified
1 Corinthians 1:23
Synopsis: In this lesson you will be challenged to preach Christ crucified just as Paul did. The emphasis of our
preaching must be Christ and the meaning of his death. This material was borrowed from Jim McGuiggan in his
book The Dragon Slayer, chapter 1: The Crux of the Matter. For a much better understanding, I strongly encourage
reading this book.
"Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway
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“Let all that you do be done with love.”

37. Will today be the day
you decide
to go to
heaven?