Embracing the Gospel, Pt. I
Nov 26th, 2007 by northbaptist
Do you have a solid definition for the word “Gospel”? You may be surprised to learn that the Gospel, or the Good News, is not simply the first four books of the New Testament (although they contain the Gospel). The Gospel isn’t saying “I’m okay, you’re okay”. The Gospel isn’t simply that God is love. Love is one of the characteristics of God, but not the only one, and it would be limiting God to say that that’s all He is. The Gospel isn’t that Jesus wants to be your friend, and it doesn’t mean that all we need is to start living right. To get the right and best definition of the Gospel, we need to go beyond semantics and grasp a short, simple-yet-dynamic concept: I am a great sinner, and Christ is a great savior. This concept, when embraced, reveals that the Gospel is about salvation. The believer can rejoice that “Salvation is not a reward for the righteous; it is a gift for the guilty.”
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