The Gospel is the story of Jesus.
It is the singlemost important story in all of Creation. In simple terms, Christians use the term Gospel, or good news, as a means of summarizing the life, death, and ressurection of the one and only Lord and Savior of the world, Jesus Christ. Nothing in life makes sense without the Gospel. The hope offered in the Gospel colors every post, discussion, comment, and article written throughout this blog. The Gospel is not just a singular, elementary story to reflect on occassionally on the weekends or around family Holidays, but rather a life-altering, priority-shifting, sin-crushing encounter with a living and active God who mightily loves his Creation.
It is both terrifying and exciting to try and explain the Gospel. Why? It's terrifying because the Gospel is God's grand story written throughout the Bible and the central defining aspect of the Christian faith. God cares about the Gospel, and he sternly warns the Church many times that we guard it, defend it, and preach it correctly. There should be a healthy fear of handling God's Word, and it's terifying to take something incomprehensible and uncontainable and define this story in some words. And I am a young punk who is going to try and synthesize the grandest of all stories into a short, coherent, truth-laden presentation. Yet the Gospel is also the greatest news to ever be proclaimed to a dying world. The gospel reveals the character of God. The Gospel saves people. The Gospel is hope. And if there is any fruitful profit born of this proclamation of the Gospel on a blog, for that I am joyful.
Paul Washer's Systematic Theology- The Gospel of our Salvation
Piper's Romans Road
The 4 Chapter Gospel
