Welcome to the Gospel Project to Go! 

The Gospel Project to-Go (GPTG) is...
The Gospel Project to-Go (GPTG) is a collaborative community resource designed to equip the whole church to disciple the whole church with the Gospel “according to the Scriptures,” and not according to some other distorting frame of reference. It includes resources made to be used in gatherings and in homes (“to-go!”) and will be used in collaboration with the efforts of our children’s and adult discipleship ministries at Crossroads. Collaboration is key for taking full advantage of this tool. The more we all lean in, the more each of each of our efforts will reinforce each other’s efforts, as we grow together in the Gospel.


Navigation: The Road from Genesis to Jesus
The Bible is a big book or, more accurately, a small library of books, 66 books in total—40 in the Old Testament, 26 in the New: “the Scriptures.” It’s easy for adults and kids alike to get lost in its pages, unaware of how each book relates to the others, how the Old Testament relates to the New, and how the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the linchpin holding it and all human history together. GPTG is built around nine passages of Scriptures that are like milestones on the road map of the Bible, salvation history. Seen together, they function like coordinates that help ‘connect the dots’ from Genesis to Jesus, and from Jesus to “the end of the age” (Mt. 28:20), so that we can understand where we are on the road and find our place in God’s story. The Gospel is Christian worldview as history.



GPTG Materials How to Use
Milestone Memory Verse Flash Cards: GPTG begins with a church-wide challenge for everyone to memorize nine passages of Scripture. The flash cards provided with this booklet are intended to help to that end. This may seem like a lot to memorize but this is a long-term effort. The verses selected are essential and provide the foundation for a lifetime of reference and reflection.

Q&A Flash Cards: The ECHO Q&As articulate the foundational doctrinal truths necessary for constructing a Gospel-centered worldview in the form of questions and answers.

To-Go Cubes provide a tactile teaching aid with descriptive titles that help demonstrate the cohesive progression of salvation history from Genesis to Jesus, and from Jesus to us.
Milestones Roadmap Booklet: This booklet is a supplemental resource (for adults and older children). It includes all nine passages of Scripture with Gospel Connections that provide summaries and discussion on each of the selected passages according to the Gospel. Each Gospel Connection shows how the passage in question connects to, prepares for, and/or is fulfilled by the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to the Scriptures. Thematic Subheadings are provided throughout the booklet for reference use. It can be read straight through or you can choose your own adventure :)

Gospel Conversations (Milestones Booklet Part 2, separate) are conversations about life according to the Scriptures. They are written as dialogues between parents and children at various ages and stages or occasions of life. They are designed to show how all our questions find their ultimate answer in Jesus, but how sometimes our questions have to find the right story before they can find the right answer. These conversations are designed to model a way of thinking and speaking—“in accordance with the Scriptures”—that helps people find the Answer they sometimes don’t even know they’re looking for, to help their questions lead them to Jesus.


Why GPTG & What’s at Stake?
After he was raised from the dead one of the first thing Jesus did was lead his disciples through an entire Old Testament Bible study—a little anticlimactic, isn’t it?!—but it was necessary for them to be able to recognize him as the risen Christ. They couldn’t recognize the resurrected Christ until they could see his death as the fulfillment of the Scriptures by which alone it can be interpreted and understood: “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory? And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself” (Lk. 24:27). It was only then that their eyes could be opened to recognize the risen Christ in the breaking of the bread and the cross as “the forgiveness of sins” for “all nations” (Lk. 24:47): it was only then they could see Jesus according to the Scriptures could believe the Gospel.
God is not whoever we say he is or want him to be, and God has a right to speak for himself—and to not to be misrepresented by those who speak of him. The church in every generation has the responsibility as stewards of God’s name and heralds of the Gospel to take care to speak truthfully about God, and not to speak falsely, keeping in mind that even the devil’s lies about God are usually made up of half-truths from the Bible taken out of context but not in alignment with the whole of the Scriptures. The Apostle Paul warned that a gospel that is not “in accordance with the Scriptures” is a false gospel that does not save (1 Cor. 15:1-4), and Jesus warned about the other ditch: “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life” (Jn. 5:39-40). What we need is the Gospel according to the Scriptures and Scriptures according to the Gospel, because what we believe and how speak about Jesus is nothing less than a matter of life—eternal life—and death.

Everyday Language According to the Gospel
Gospel growth is like language learning, because “gospel” is not just a word but a whole way of speaking. The word itself means “Good News,” and the News refers to an event, the event, that defines all events and the fate of this world. “Gospel,” therefore, isn’t a word that you add to your vocabulary but a word that redefines your vocabulary. It is like the wardrobe in The Chronicles of Narnia. Once you walk through it, there are still trees and people and teatime, but it is all in world, in a story, where everything takes on a whole new meaning in light of the truth of new and fuller picture of reality you were otherwise blind to. The truth of the wardrobe makes a claim on all reality, not just the world on the other side, and once you have become aware of the full picture of reality, all your thinking and speaking has to be brought “in accordance with” the truth.

The Gospel comes as News from the world—from the King—on the other side of the “wardrobe.” The King has come to announce to this world that his world, his kingdom, is coming to invade this earth and bring it under the rule of heaven—and all should prepare accordingly. “The time is fulfilled, the kingdom of God is at hand, repent and believe the Gospel” (Mk. 1:15). Like Paul Revere’s announcement to prepare the troops that “the British are coming!” Christians believe that the King is coming back to this earth, in human history, to raise the dead and transform this earth with the glory of heaven—this is the conclusion to human history. That single truth is far wilder than the wardrobe and witches of Narnia, and it should change the way you see trees and do teatime. The world is opened up with possibility. Life has all new meaning, purpose. History has taken the shape of a story, the Story, in which we’ve all been included.

Lies about the “other world” doesn’t typically spread through explicit denials of it—because then it would have to be named— but simply through a way of thinking and speaking that implicitly denies it. It’s a way of thinking and speaking formed in a worldview in which the full picture of reality has been eclipsed. GPTG is our effort to form a community that speaks the same language because we all belong to the same Story.

Milestone Memory Verse Flashcards

GPTG begins with a church-wide challenge for everyone to memorize nine passages of Scripture. The flash cards provided with this booklet are
intended to help to that end. This may seem like a lot to memorize
but this is a long-term effort. The verses selected are essential and
provide the foundation for a lifetime of reference and reflection.
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:26-29
"Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

"And God blessed them. And God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.' 29 And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.
Genesis 12:1-3
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Exodus 20:1-17
"And God spoke all these words, saying, 'I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

  1. You shall have no other gods before me.
  2. You shall not make for yourself an idol.
  3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
  4. You shall remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
  5. Honor your father and your mother.
  6. You shall not murder.
  7. You shall not commit adultery.
  8. You shall not steal.
  9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
  10. You shall not covet your neighbor's possessions."
Matthew 22:36-40
"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?' And he said to him, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.'
Matthew 6:9-115
"Pray then like this:
'Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.'
'For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.'
1 Corinthians 15:1-4
"Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you- unless you believed in vain.
"For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures."
Romans 6:23
"For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Matthew 28:18-20
"And Jesus came and said to them, 'All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and disciple all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age."

The ECHO Q&As

The ECHO Q&As articulate the foundational
doctrinal truths necessary for constructing a Gospel-centered
worldview in the form of questions and answers.