Please check out this link to “What is the TRUE Gospel?” at a friends blog. He says it all very well.
I suggest reading it several times. At least I did. Thinking I might know how to articulate the gospel myself, off the top of my head, I skimmed through it the first time or two. But in slowing down, trying to read it as though hearing it for the first time, or having no expectations as to what He was going to say, (stopping to smell the good news roses), I was increasingly blessed with the depth of the truth, the reality of the gift that has been given us in Christ.
Jesus is the Christ, the good news, the good news of the Kingdom, the good news of Grace, the good news of Hope, the good news of Peace, the good news of Mercy, the good news of Freedom, the good news of Love, He is the full Gospel, and He in us and we in Him.
Does it get any better than this? Apparently it does…
(1Cor 2:9) But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Amen
April 23, 2008 at 2:01 am
Hooray! But God has revealed it to us by His Spirit. The Spirit searches the deep things of God. (1 Cor 2:10) I can’t wait.
Cindy
April 23, 2008 at 3:27 am
You’re right, Cindy, the Spirit does reveal it to us. We know, in fact, that what God has prepared for us is to come into the fullness of Christ, all the while still on earth. Just as the Spirit revealed Christ to us, He shall reveal Christ in us! Christ in us, the hope of glory! Very exciting.