Class Assignment: The Gospel According to (Insert Name Here)

[Max]

Hi, I’m a sophmore in a Catholic school, and I just had a question. Today I just got an assignment for my New Testament class where we have to basically outline our own Gospel. Since we are learning how Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John each had their own target audiences for their Gospels, we are supposed to outline our own Gospel targeted to an audience of our choice.

Here’s basically how we do it: Pick 5 parables, 5 miracles, 5 teachings, and other important details…then we arrange them in a way that we feel is relevant to the message we’re trying to send.

For some reason, this seems a bit wrong to me. I know my teacher is trying to make a point, but my school has a history of blasphemous and heretical religion teachers…I know from experience. Any comments?

 

[RichT]

Sounds to me like a lesson on evangelization. In other words, how would you spread the good news?

 

[Arwen037]

Don’t gospels come from Divine Inspiration? It seems kinda like defying that to try to imitate that, even if it’s only making an outline.

 

[Arwen037]

Don’t gospels come from Divine Inspiration? It seems kinda like defying that to try to imitate that, even if it’s only making an outline.

 

[Ray_Marshall]

Max:

For some reason, this seems a bit wrong to me. I know my teacher is trying to make a point, but my school has a history of blasphemous and heretical religion teachers…I know from experience. Any comments?

Well, I’m no theologian, but I think your teacher has given you an excellent assignment that will make you think long and hard about the four Gospels and when you are done with the assignment you will know a lot more about your Catholic religion and Jesus Christ who died for you.