Over the past few weeks I have been challenged to define what is the gospel, the good news. How would you attempt it?
The first thing I would say is that it’s the good news of Jesus. It is when people interact person to person with Jesus that they discover something ‘good’. It is not just that people hear good teaching or even are healed but encounter a man full of ‘grace and truth’. Jesus is Good News.
The good news is also for a certain category of person. Those who find themselves to have failed, messed up and lost their way are most blessed. Jesus says that those who have been forgiven much, love much. The heart of this that we need to fully own our need of the forgiveness that Jesus offers. We all can know that we are forgiven much but only on the condition that we come to Jesus in the truth of who we are.
The good news is that we can encounter Jesus as we actually are and not as we pretend to be.
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