The Three Circles Gospel Visual: How to Teach It to Your Group

The Three Circles

The Three Circles gives the fullest picture of the Christian life. It shows not just how the gospel saves us, but what God restores us to and what He sends us to do — Grow and Go. It is a slightly more intricate drawing, but once participants learn it they have a complete gospel framework they can carry into any conversation.

It works well with a group that has time to sit with the whole story — a ministry team training, a small group starting a new semester, or any setting where you want people to walk away able to explain not just what saved them but what they were saved for.

How to Use It

Start with the facilitator guide. It walks you through the full teaching script in order — Brokenness, God’s Perfect Design, Sin, the squiggly arrows, Jesus, Turn and Believe, Grow, and Go — along with conversation starters, training tips, and a salvation invitation you should never skip.

Give everyone a Follow-Along Sheet. Participants draw the visual along with you as you teach and use the notes section to capture anything that stands out. They keep that sheet and bring it back to every follow-up.

What you do next depends on why your group is here.

Training your team to share the gospel? Use Practice the Gospel. Participants pair up, take turns explaining the visual, give each other feedback, and talk it through. This is where confidence actually grows — not from watching it taught, but from saying it out loud in a room where nobody expects it to be perfect.

Presenting the gospel to your group? Skip the practice and go straight to a study. Rooted in Scripture has the group look up verses and place them on the visual they drew, proving to themselves that the gospel was in the Bible all along. Or use one of the three Bible studies, each walking through a single passage that shows the gospel lived out.

You can also use more than one. Many groups teach the visual one week, do Rooted in Scripture the next, and come back to a Bible study after that. They are modules, not steps — take what your group needs, in whatever order fits.

A Note to the Facilitator

One more thing worth noting — the practice of drawing and sharing the visual is essential. That hands-on repetition is exactly what makes the gospel stick. Once participants have drawn it, explained it, and practiced it with a partner, the visual lives in their memory. They can walk someone through the gospel in any conversation, any setting, with or without a pen or paper — because the picture is already in their head.