October 7, 2026 | The High School Ministry team teaches practical ways to share the gospel. Caleb Logan introduces the Romans Road method, Liza Kirk presents the creation-fall-redemption-restoration approach, and Chris Pepper emphasizes inspiring awe and wonder when sharing the gospel, urging believers to communicate the gospel's vibrancy rather than with mundanity.
Bellevue Baptist Church High School Ministry
All right, hey, tonight, first Wednesday, I love the jerseys that I'm seeing out there, but tonight is going to look a little different than it has in the past. What I am really excited for is that tonight, you're going to get the chance to hear from three of my favorite people in the world. I'm not just saying that, but it's the team that makes up this high school team. And we're really excited about what the Lord has placed on their heart. And here's the initiative. I'm gonna give you the pitch really quick. The initiative that we are going to start pushing for on first Wednesdays is we want to equip you to be able to go out and to share the gospel in every place and every day. Wherever it is the Lord has placed you, whether that is in your classroom or whether that's with your family or on your sports team, wherever it is, we want to help give you the tools that are necessary for you to be able to share the gospel. Because here's what's true. And any of you who play sports or athletes or anything like that, you know, hey, it's important to kind of know the other team's game plan, but what's even more important is you gotta know your game plan. Like you can study the other team's strategy all day long, but if you don't know your game plan and how you're gonna go about things, how you are going to go about the game and try to win, it's not really gonna be helpful, right? So here's what we're gonna do tonight. You're gonna hear from three of our team members, Chris, Liza, and Caleb. Hey, here's how I like to share the gospel. And listen, here's the deal. There are so many different ways to be able to share the gospel with someone. And I want you to hear something. We have bought into the lie, well, sharing the gospel is just with my actions. That is such a lazy way to think about sharing the gospel. Hear me. You should share the gospel with your actions. It should be evident that you follow Christ and that other people should try to follow Christ or should pursue him by the way that you live your life and the things that you say and the things that you do. But here's the deal, students. At some point, you have to open up your mouth and share the gospel. At some point, it's on you. You have a responsibility as a believer, as a follower of Christ to open up your mouth and to explain three things. One, they're a sinner. Two, they need a savior. Three, Jesus Christ can be their savior if they would surrender their lives to him. That's the gospel in a nutshell. There are so many different ways to share that. What I'm really excited about tonight is that you're gonna hear from three of our team members. Hey, here's how I go about sharing the gospel with other people. So I'm gonna go ahead and invite them up here. Just give them a round of applause. You love these people. That's right. Even though Chris is a huge Razorback fan, making his way up here, you got one. Woo, yeah, that's a... But hey, we're really excited. And like I said, you're gonna get to hear from them of hey, here's a method that I use to share the gospel and here's what I asked of them and what you're gonna get from tonight. It's like I said, there's a lot of different ways to be able to share the gospel, okay? But what I want you to get is like, hey, here's a couple of ways that if you're having a conversation with someone, maybe this blueprint that they're gonna give you kind of fits into having a conversation with someone in your class or someone in your family or someone on your sports team, whatever it is. So pay attention, take some good notes and turn your attention over to our first presenter, Caleb Logan. Thank y'all. Yeah, so I'm gonna be talking about the Romans Road and you're gonna hear three different ways to share the gospel tonight. But before we do that, I want to first establish that there is no such thing as a perfect gospel presentation. There is only a perfect gospel. A lot of times we put the pressure on ourselves to deliver the perfect presentation because it's all on our shoulders, whether or not someone is going to believe in the gospel or not. But it is not for us to carry that burden, but it is between that person that we're sharing with and God. And then another thing I want to establish is when you have the opportunity, please focus on building relationships with lost people. Go out of your way and build relationships with these people so that you will have opportunities, not ones where you were just throwing your elevator pitch at them and throwing the gospel at them and walking away, but ones where you sit down and have conversations and listen to them. Listening is so important, guys. Listen to them, ask them questions, and then answer the questions that they have for you. For me, all of our passages are not going to be in Romans. So if you guys have your Bible, you can go there. The first one is Romans 3.23. Yeah, there we go. Something that I like to do that this is just something you guys can take into practice is I like to have this little Bible. This little Bible right here fits in my pocket. And in it, I have all of the Romans road underlined and numbered. Many of you guys know, whenever the time comes for you to share the gospel, you start getting nervous, right? And then suddenly you forget every scripture you ever memorized and everything that you were ever planning on saying. You might even forget the whole gospel. Hopefully not. But this allows me to just have it as a backup plan at any time. And then first, it's important that we establish that God is a creator, right? Before we jump into the Romans, we want to, I mean, go to Genesis and say, hey, like God created everything. He created you and me and the birds and the air and the earth and the water. He created all these things. And then we need to establish what sin is. So many people know this, but it's important that you touch on it, that in the beginning, God created man. And then Adam and Eve, he gave them one commandment to not, like one thing to not do, to go eat from this one specific tree and spoiler alert, they did it. And that is what brought sin into the world. Sin is anytime that we do anything that is disobedient to God, anytime that we were choosing to go against him. All right, chapter three, verse 23. It says, for everyone has sinned and we all fall short of God's glorious standard. Emphasis here on the fact that all have sinned. We established already what sin is. And now we have to establish that all of us have sinned. There is not a single person in here or in the whole world that is above that. No one goes, no one is under like, that goes up to God's glorious standard, like the verse says. And once we establish that, we can go to Romans 6, 23. And I want you guys to be writing these down and on your notes app or whatever, so that you can underline these and number them yourselves. So when the time comes, you can share this tomorrow or even tonight. So next is 6, 23. And it says, for the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus, our Lord. Emphasis on for the wages of sin is death. So we've established what sin is. We've established that we are all sinners. And now we see that because of our sin, we deserve death and we deserve separation from God. From there, we go to chapter five, verse eight, which says, but God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. So we see that because of our sin, we all deserve to die. But, emphasis on the but there, but God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us. The punishment that we deserved, Christ came down to earth, lived the perfect life and died on the cross, taking the punishment that we deserved so that we could one day accept that. Through, we go to chapter 10, verses nine through 10. It says, if you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God and by openly declaring your faith that you are saved. This gift of God dying on the cross for our sins, all we have to do to accept it is to confess and believe in our hearts. And that is what we are saved through. Once again, it says, if you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. And from here, I'll ask them, like, do you believe these things? And if they say yes, then I'll be like, okay, what is it that you believe? Because a lot of times you're gonna get in this conversation and people are just gonna say yes and give you all the right answers because they want it to be over with. So don't just be like, okay, great, you're saved. Ask them what they believe and see if they're like, if they actually understand what you're saying or if they just want the conversation to be over. If they say no, they don't understand or they don't believe the things that you are saying, ask them questions. What is it that you do not believe? And be willing to listen to them and what they believe and be able to be ready to answer their questions. And don't go in fearful of not being able to answer their questions because if you have accepted Christ as your savior, you have the Holy Spirit inside of you. And when this moment comes and the questions come your way, a lot of wisdom that is not from you is gonna come out and you are going to be able, I believe that you guys will be able to answer these questions. And if you don't, that's okay. Tell them, actually, I'm not sure, but let me go find out. Let me ask an older brother or sister in the faith that knows and then we'll come back and talk about this. But if they say yes and they truly believe, then we'll go to Romans 8, verse one.
It says, so now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. That is the good news. That those who believe, those who accept Christ, have no longer have any condemnation. That they can spend eternity with Christ when that day comes, when Jesus comes back for his people. That we will spend eternity with Christ and we will face no condemnation. But guys, another thing that I wanna tell you guys is that it's not over there. We're not here to just make converts and then disappear from their lives. The great commission is to go and make disciples of all nations. That means once you have shared the gospel and if you've led them to Christ, get their contact information at the very least and strive to, if you don't want to disciple them or you don't think that you're fit to disciple that person, find someone that will. Because we are about making disciples, not just about making converts. And we want to be able to equip these people to grow up and to share the faith that they have now so that we can multiply. But yeah, that is the Romans road. We got first Romans 3.23, second 6.23, third 5.8, fourth 10.9-10, and then fifth 8.1. All right, so like Camden said in the beginning, we're going to be talking about a couple of different ways. So Liza, you want to come on up? Thank you so much, Caleb. Absolutely crushed it, hit it out of the park. Yeah, like Caleb said, ooh, this just went down. Like Caleb said, there's not one way to share the gospel. There are multiple different ways. And I am a huge fan of obviously getting to know someone before you just start sharing the gospel with them. Because something that I've noticed as I've shared the gospel with multiple people is that everybody has a different story, and the character of Jesus is going to appeal to different parts of different people's stories. So the way I share the gospel with someone who maybe doesn't have a relationship with, I don't know, their dad or their mom or one of their parents, and maybe had a really traumatic upbringing is going to be different than when I share the gospel with someone who's maybe seemingly doing fine, and they're pretty comfortable in their life, but they just don't have Jesus in their life. So I am a huge fan of getting to know someone, even just a little bit, before you start sharing the gospel with them, building a relationship, and then hopefully having those conversations. The method I'm going to be teaching tonight is creation, fall, redemption, restoration. Don't worry, I'm going to go through all of these. I know it was kind of a mouthful. But CFRR is a really good acronym that I use. So the first one is creation. And so if you could turn to Genesis 1, and we're starting in verse 27, and I'm going to jump around a little bit, so bear with me. If you don't catch up, that's okay. Genesis 1, 27 says, so God, hold on a second, sorry. So God created man in his own image. In the image of God, he created him. Male and female, he created them. God blessed them and said to them, be fruitful and multiply. And then I'm going to jump around to 31, verse 31. It says, and God saw all that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning the sixth day. So kind of like what Caleb was saying, and I love that he jumped on that, is it's important for people to know that when we were first created, we were in perfect harmony with God. There was no rift in our relationship. There was no division. There was no need for there to be a gap. There was no gap that needed to be bridged. We were in perfect harmony with God. And I think this is important to share when you're sharing the gospel, because everybody is wondering what their purpose is all the time. There are so many people who are constantly wondering, why am I even here? What am I doing here? What's my purpose on earth? I thought it was my job, but then I lost that job. So what is it now? I thought it was my sport, but then I got an injury and I can't play anymore. So what's my purpose? Who am I? And I like to share these verses with them because it kind of helps them get more of an understanding of, hey, your purpose is to be with God and to be close to God. And that void that you're trying to fill, that void that you're trying to satisfy, but you can't, it's because we were created to be in perfect harmony with God. And then that brings us to the next point is the fall. So I'm sure a lot of us are familiar with sin and how the fall happened. And if you're not, Genesis three, which is kind of neighbors with Genesis one, two over, it says, the serpent was more cunning than any animal of the field, which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, has God really said you shall not eat from any tree of the garden? And then obviously we know that after that, Eve was like, wait, did God really say, is that true? And then she decided to eat from the tree. So when Satan said, has God really said, that was his distortion of God's word, right? And that still happens with us today constantly. We even see sometimes leaders doing that. We see leaders distorting the word of God. We hear our friends doing it. We hear people who are above us who are supposed to be nurturing us and shepherding us misusing the word of God. And so that's why it's important to understand what God's word actually says. So that's when the fall happens. That's when we decided to act on our temptations, take the fruit from the tree, try to be like God. And that's when sin was introduced in the world. And it's important, kind of like what Kayla was saying, it's important for people to know what sin is, because a lot of times you'll be like, you're a sinner. And they're like, what, what sin? I don't know what that is. And it's important for them to know that literally nobody, nobody in this world has not sinned. Everybody is a sinner in some capacity and nobody's exempt from sin, right? We have all sinned. And so that's kind of, that kind of leads over into redemption. So it's, we were created for this purpose. We were tempted. We gave into temptation, which introduced sin into the world, which was the fall. And so we went against our purpose, which was being with God, being close with him, being in perfect harmony with him. And then there's the part where it's, you introduce hope and you say, well, yes, we are fallen. Yes, everyone has sinned and fall short of glory of God and we are deserving of death, but there is a redemption, right? And obviously redemption comes through Christ, as we know. And if you guys could turn to Ephesians one, Ephesians one, starting in verse seven, I'll give you guys a second, cause I know it's far away. It says, in him, we have redemption through his blood and forgiveness of our wrongdoings, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight. I think almost every single time I've shared the gospel with someone, they have had a really hard time understanding like, okay, but like, what do I need to do? Like, what do I need to do? Do I need to do something? Do I need to go out and do this thing a certain amount of times before God accepts me? Do I need to go and do something for this person or do something for that person before I'm accepted into the kingdom? And the redemption part of it is obviously the most important part. When you explain, yes, we are sinners, but Jesus died on the cross, the most humiliating death you could possibly die. He died on the cross. He was tortured for you, for your sake. He paid your debt. You had a debt, which was sin. We can't save ourselves. And so that's why we need Jesus, who was the only perfect person to ever live, to do it for us. And that's when you explain the cross and you explain, you know, why we needed Jesus's blood to be shed. And that's when you explain the resurrection. Yes, Jesus died. Yes, he was in the grave for three days, but then he rose again from the dead. And you can even appeal to the fact where you're like, yeah, I know it's pretty unbelievable, because I know that there are some times where it kind of just becomes like white noise to me of like, oh yeah, he died and he rose from the dead. He rose from the dead? Like, I don't think we think about that enough. The fact that Jesus was dead and then he wasn't dead. It's unfathomable. And I think we just hear it so much that it just becomes white noise. And when you share the gospel, even you yourself are like, wow, that is absolutely unbelievable. But obviously we know that it's true and it's really cool to be able to share in that joy with somebody else. The last point is restoration. This one can get a little bit tricky because this is when you talk about eternity. And I'm gonna go into Revelation, not too deep. Revelation is, you know, it's a huge undertaking. But the verse that I found to really represent restoration well is Revelation one, starting in verse seven. And it says, behold, he is coming on the clouds and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. So it is to be. And then in Revelation 21, verse four, it says, he will wipe every tear from their eyes and there will be no longer any death. There will be no longer any mourning or crying or pain. The first things have passed away. When you're talking about this, you have to be really careful because I know when we're in church, we hear about eternity a lot and we hear about, oh, I'm gonna spend eternity with Jesus in heaven. And I don't think we really grasp that. And we kind of need to put ourselves in the shoes of someone who has never heard that before. But in talking about restoration, you can say, yes, we were created to be with God, then we fell, we decided to step into sin, we were tempted, we stepped into that. But then there was redemption. But then it's like, okay, what next? It's like, well, Jesus is coming back and he's gonna take all of us with him. And we're part of his eternal kingdom. And the best part about that is, is that if someone does decide to give their life to Christ while you're sharing the gospel with them, sometimes they will, sometimes they won't. And if they don't, then that doesn't mean that you failed, right? Because again, it's not on our shoulders whether or not someone accepts Christ or not. It's the work of the Holy Spirit. It's not from us. And so,
we can trust that the Lord will do the work in them, and we can trust that the Lord will help them learn more about restoration, help them to understand what that means of spending eternity with God. So yeah, I hope that was helpful. CFRR, I've learned that that has been really helpful to me in sharing the gospel with people. Sometimes it can feel a little technical and it can feel very structured, but it's just good guidelines. So if you get off of those guidelines and you end up, the Holy Spirit just kind of takes you and is like, I got it, and you end up sharing something along these lines, but maybe not in so many words, that's completely okay. But yeah, that's just another way to share the gospel. And now Chris is gonna come up and he's gonna share a different way, and it kind of segues into kind of what I was talking about. Yeah, let's thank Liza and Kayla one more time, sharing with us just a little bit about what it looks like and how we can share the gospel and kind of the pathway that we can take to do that. Two things, number one, I don't want you to hear some of this and what we're talking about and think, well, I just, I don't know how to do that. I don't know if I have enough courage to do that. I don't know if I have enough faith even to maybe step out and do something like that. Or maybe for some of you, I know this was my story, you've shared the gospel with people, you've tried to do these things, and they don't respond well, or they don't respond at all, and you just get discouraged. I want you to know, I've told this before, I'll tell it to you again. I think I shared the gospel with like 40 strangers before one got saved. And I went through a period there where I was so discouraged. I said, God, I'm trying so hard. I'm trying to do what you've called me to do. I get scared every time. One time, I almost got shot. That's a story for another day. But one time, I almost got shot trying to do that. And then finally, finally, somebody got saved for the first time, and that lit a fire under me that has never gone out. So I want to encourage you in that. As you're trying to do these things, as you're maybe writing things down, or thinking of ideas, or who do I share it with, what method would I like to use, don't give up. Don't grow weary in the work that God has set out for you to do, because there will come a day. There will come a day where one gives their life to Christ, and it will change your life too. So that's first thing out of the way, is don't give up when you're trying to share the gospel with people. It will come. His word will not return void. Number two, what I wanted to talk to you about is it's a method, it's how I do things, but it's also a little bit of a philosophy. It's a little philosophical. So lock in with me here, what I'm about to talk about. I thought about this the other day. It was a few months ago. I was at my fiance's house, and her two little sisters, Scarlett and Alice, were showing me a YouTube video that they used to watch as kids. And in the video, it's like basically Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, but with real adults, and it's live action. It was weird. It was a whole weird thing, and they just thought it was really funny, and it was funny. But in the background, there are these shapes on the wall. There's a triangle, and a circle, and a square, and rectangle, or the basic shapes. And they're all different colors, and they're made of foam. And for whatever reason, it reminded me of when I was a kid, and I found shapes exciting. I've talked to our teams about this. I've talked to everyone. Nobody resonates with this for some reason, but it's a big part of my childhood. I used to find shapes exciting, and I would see a three-dimensional triangle on a playground, and I would want to climb on that triangle. Like it was an exciting thing for me to want to do. Does anybody resonate with that? Remember when shapes were exciting? Does anybody remember that? Just two, or three. That's so sad to me. But shapes used to be exciting, and now I look at a triangle, and it's like I've already seen that. This isn't exciting anymore. I'm not exhilarated by shapes. So here's the point I'm trying to make. I have lost my sense of wonder when I look at a shape. I'm no longer excited by that shape because it has become mundane. And in a similar way, I think when it comes to the gospel, that for many of us that have heard it so many times, we too have lost our sense of wonder when it comes to the gospel. The holy things have become mundane. So I've got a very short amount of time. I'm going to try to get through this as quickly as I possibly can. But I'm going to teach you just some, through doing it, through showing you, hopefully you'll learn some of these things and have a sense of wonder yourself, but how to inspire awe and wonder in the person you are sharing the gospel with. Far too often, we talk about the gospel, we do it in a way that is overly rehearsed and mundane. We make the most incredible story ever told boring. We say things like Adam and Eve sinned and disobeyed God, or Jesus died for your sins, or one day we'll be with God in heaven again. All of those things are very true, amen? Amen, those things are very true. However, that's not exactly how the Bible describes them. The Bible is so much more vivid and vibrant in its explanation of these things. We have lost our sense of wonder because we've read it so many times, or we've been told it so many times. The Bible describes the garden of Eden beautifully, it describes Jesus' death and resurrection intensely, and it describes the new heaven and the new earth vividly and vibrantly. Like I said, I don't have time to show you how to talk about all three of those parts, the garden, Jesus, and the new heaven and the new earth, but what I want to zoom in on is specifically the new heaven and the new earth. When you're sharing the gospel with someone, one of the most important parts is that we will one day spend eternity with God in heaven, the gift of eternal life that Jesus died for, the thing that we believe we will receive one day. But we so often brush past what it will actually look like. So Revelation 21, we just talked about Revelation a little bit, we're gonna go back to Revelation. Revelation 21, verses one through five, this is what they say. I want you to think about this for a minute because John is in this isolated island, and God gives him this vision. John is physically seeing this, which in and of itself is wild, and you and I would probably explode if we saw this kind of stuff. I mean, John, it's almost like a fish being shown like TikTok. It's just crazy, like they can't even comprehend it. This is what it says. This is what John writes in his vision. Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. I also saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. Then I heard a loud voice from the throne, look, God's dwelling is with humanity and he will live with them. They will be his peoples and God himself will be with them and will be their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more. Grief, crying, and pain will be no more because the previous things have passed away. Then the one seated on the throne said, look, I am making everything new. He also said, write, because these words are faithful and true. So you're catching how vividly John describes the new heaven and the new earth here. Does it give you any sense of wonder at all when you try to imagine these things? I hope so. I hope that you have some imagination left to feel that sense of wonder when you try to imagine it. It certainly should. I mean, how much more exciting is this description than simply saying we will be with God in the new heaven and the new earth? One day we'll be with God in the new heaven and the new earth. For the unbeliever, that doesn't mean anything. They have no context for the new heaven and the new earth. Why would they even want to be there? See, God knew this when he was showing John this vision. That's why he was so descriptive because it's an exciting place that we get to go. It is a wonderful place that we get to go. When you're sharing the gospel with someone, you need to help them achieve that sense of wonder as well. Describe how the sea is no more because for all of human history, the sea has represented chaos and destruction and in the new and holy place, chaos and destruction are no more. There's no need for the sea anymore. Talk about the new Jerusalem, this beautiful city that is descending from heaven. This city made of gold is described as these clear waters with these beautiful trees. The tree of life is there again and it descends from heaven from God himself. That's incredible. That inspires in me a sense of wonder at this place that I will one day get to live. It's described to be like a bride adorned for her husband, beautiful and majestic on her wedding day. Tell them that God's dwelling place will be with humanity. I mean, how crazy is that? The God of the entire universe, a universe so vast that there is no possible way that humanity can even comprehend it, let alone explore it. That same God will make his dwelling place with humanity. It's just that he himself will wipe away their tears. Can you imagine that, that the hand of God, the hand of God wipes away your tears when you cry? How many of you have ever cried? Everybody raise your hand. Raise your hand, Elliot. How many of you have ever cried? Yeah, all of you have cried. Don't lie to me. Can you imagine, can you imagine, many of you have experienced that whether it be a mom or a dad or a guardian or a friend. They wipe away your tear and they give you a hug. And how much better that makes you feel. There's so much psychology behind that of why that makes you feel that way. Can you imagine God doing that for you in the new heaven and the new earth? You describe it that way to somebody when you're sharing the gospel. Can you imagine God, the God of the universe, wiping away your tears? That is an incredible thought. That is a wonderful thought to have. Death and grief and crying and pain will be no more. Can you imagine that? A world with no sorrow because the God of the universe is making all things new. You then ask the person you're sharing with if they can picture that. Have them try to imagine in their mind. Give them time. Create for them a moment that excites their mind and their heart. And then do that for the rest of the gospel as well. Which I know is easier said than done. But again, I don't have a whole lot of time. The gospel is such an exciting story. There are so many dozens of passages that are so full of wonder. The story is truly incredible and we have a duty.
We have a duty to explain it as it has been told to us. We have a duty to do it justice in how we communicate what God has given to us. You don't have to do hard work to make the gospel exciting and you don't have to do it any favors. Tell them the story how the Bible tells the story. Don't exaggerate things, don't make stuff up. Tell it to them how God has told it to us. It will naturally create a sense of childlike wonder and curiosity just like maybe just me had with shapes. It's the same kind of wonder that a small child when it sees something for the first time. My, again, fiance's older sister has a young daughter named Hazel, she's one. And every time Hazel sees a basketball, she shakes with excitement when the basketball bounces. She's so enamored by basketballs. They're bouncing basketball and she's literally, she's one years old and she's like, brah, she's so excited about the basketball. That's childlike wonder and we too can achieve that again with the gospel and when we share it with someone, we need to know the Bible well enough that we can incite that sense of wonder in them as well. If all you ever learn is the method, that's why I'm talking about this now, you need the method. But if all you ever learn is the method and you don't actually know what the Bible says, you don't actually know how exciting this stuff really is, then the person you're sharing it with never will either because you were the mouthpiece of God in that moment and you didn't have a sense of wonder yourself. First, you must have a sense of wonder. First, you must be excited about the gospel and that will flow out of you like living water every single time. Your job is simply to not make the gospel boring because you don't know what the Bible says. Your job isn't to make it exciting, it already is. You just need to know what the Bible says to then make it exciting for the person you're sharing it with. Sound good?