The Gospel - Desiring God The gospel is good news because it brings a person into the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of Jesus Christ He is not merely the rope that pulls us from the threatening waves; he is the solid beach under our feet, and the air in our lungs, and the beat of our heart, and the warm sun on our skin, and the song in our ears, and the arms of
The Gospel in 6 Minutes - Desiring God That’s the gospel You Can’t Outgrow the Gospel You never, never, never outgrow your need for the gospel Don’t ever think of the gospel as, “That’s the way you get saved, and then you get strong by leaving it and doing something else ” No! We are strengthened by God through the gospel every day, till the day we drop
What Is the Gospel For? - Desiring God The gospel is a free offer to all for faith; Christ is offered to you for faith alone Where do I see that? Verses 1–2: “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 ”
The Gospel in Six Truths | Desiring God Here are six elements I see in that text on the gospel If any one of these six is missing, we have no gospel 1 The gospel is a divine plan “Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,” which were written hundreds of years before Christ died (1 Corinthians 15:3)
What Is the Christian Gospel? - Desiring God The gospel is not just a sequence of steps (say, the "Four Laws" of Campus Crusade or the "Six Biblical Truths" of Quest for Joy) Those are essential But what makes the gospel "good news" is that it connects a person with the "unsearchable riches of Christ " There is nothing in itself that makes "forgiveness of sins" good news
Living with Gospel-Sized Ambition - Desiring God But I do not account my life” — this is Acts 20:24 now — “of any value nor as precious to myself, if only” — this is the one sense in which he does value his life — “I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God ”
A Summary of the Gospel to Help You Enjoy It and Share It God Created Us for His Glory “Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory” (Isaiah 43:6-7)
The Gospel of the Grace of God - Desiring God The verse is Acts 20:24, “I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God ” The ministry Paul had been given by the risen Christ was to “testify to the gospel of the grace of God ”
Nine Ways to Know That the Gospel of Christ Is True 4 The early church was an indomitable force of faith and love and sacrifice on the basis of the reality of Jesus Christ The character of this church, and the nature of the gospel of grace and forgiveness, and the undaunted courage of men and women - even unto death - do not fit the hypothesis of mass hysteria They simply were not like that