Review: Ready to Tell the News
Month 10: Telling the Good News · Family Worship
Today's Scripture
Read together: Romans 10:9-15
9 that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved. 11 It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.” 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him, 13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 14 How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach? 15 And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
Memory Verse
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.””— Acts 1:8 (BSB)memorize this week
📖 Bible-in-a-Year (optional)
Today's reading: Isaiah 40-42
Reading the whole Bible in a year — do this when you have extra time. (Around Day 299 of 365 — "Comfort, comfort My people," and a voice crying in the wilderness.)The Heart of It
Tonight we look back over a whole month of learning how to tell the good news. puts the whole journey in one place. It is so simple a child can do it: "if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved" (v. 9). You believe in your heart. You say it out loud with your mouth. That is how anyone, anywhere, comes to Jesus. And it is for absolutely everyone: "Whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved" (v. 13). Not just our family. Not just our country. Whoever. That is the biggest, kindest invitation in the whole world, and Jesus has handed it to us to pass along.
But also asks four questions that line up like dominoes (vv. 14-15). How can people call on Jesus if they have not believed? How can they believe if they have never heard? How can they hear without someone telling them? And how will anyone tell them unless they are sent? Do you see where it ends? It ends with you. God's plan to reach the lost runs right through ordinary people who open their mouths. But we do not do this in our own strength. That is why our memory verse this week is . Jesus gives us His Holy Spirit so that we have power to be witnesses. The message is good. The invitation is for all. The Helper is in us. We are ready.
Around the Table
The good news is easy: Jesus loves you, He died for you, and He came alive again! Anyone who asks Jesus to save them gets saved.
Let's do it: Practice saying it out loud together three times: "Jesus is alive, and He saves anybody who asks!"
says we believe in our heart and say it with our mouth. Both matter. And the Holy Spirit gives us the power to share.
Let's talk: Which part is harder for you — believing it, or saying it to someone else? Why?
Trace the four dominoes backward: call, believe, hear, sent. The chain of salvation reaches people through sent messengers.
Let's go deeper: Name one person in your "Jerusalem" (home, school, team) who has not yet heard. What would the next small, kind step toward them be?
💬 Conversation Starter
If you got the best news ever — like a surprise trip to your favorite place — who is the very first person you would run to tell?— That's exactly how we should feel about Jesus!
🛡️ Defending the Faith
When someone says, "Christianity is just your truth, not real truth for everyone," remember . "Whoever" calls on Jesus is saved. The gospel was never a private opinion. It is a public announcement that something really happened in history, offered kindly to all. Share it with gentleness and respect (), as good news, not an argument to win.
For Dad · Go Deeper
A month of mission lessons can leave a dad feeling the weight of one question: "Have I actually told anyone lately?" Sit with that honestly, but not under condemnation. makes evangelism wonderfully un-heroic. God does the saving. We simply tell. Your children are watching. They want to see whether the good news is good enough to you that you'll mention it at the grocery store, to a neighbor, or to a coworker. They will catch your courage long before they copy your words. And notice the order in . Power comes first, witness comes second. You are not commanded to manufacture boldness by willpower. You are invited to be filled with the Spirit who supplies it. So lead from that fullness, not from guilt.
Draws on: Sean McDowell, So the Next Generation Will Know.
Let's Pray Together
"Father, thank You that the good news of Jesus is for everyone. It's even for the people we'll meet tomorrow. Fill us with Your Holy Spirit. Give us power to tell it kindly and bravely. Make us the messengers You send. In Jesus' name, amen."
God's plan to reach the lost runs right through ordinary people who will simply open their mouths. And that includes me.