Is it Good News or is it Bad News?
There is no user-friendly, seeker-sensitive gospel.
There is only the Truth.
Ministers and teachers who water down the gospel of Christ in order to make it more popular and appealing may be leading their fun-loving audiences down the road to eternal punishment.
The modern tendency to alter the true message of Christianity in order to meet the whims and desires of a culture hoping for nonconfrontational messages, easy answers, and superficial commitments.
Too many people just want Jesus to make them well, make them happy, and make them prosperous. But Jesus Christ isn’t a personal genie. He is the Saviour. He died in agony to satisfy the wrath of a holy God and to forgive the sins of humankind. Faith in Him demands a willingness to make any sacrifice. The hard truth about Christianity is that the cost is high, but the rewards are priceless, abundant and eternal life that comes only from faithfully following Christ.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)
The foundational truth of the gospel is vital to our understanding the entire sixty six books of Scripture - the Living Word of God, in which the gospel is highlighted 98 times.
Personal faith in the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation of our future life and the light filled pathway of the present day of our life.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. (Romans 1:16)
And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ. (Romans 15:29)
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost. (2 Corinthians 4:3)
Sound the gospel of grace abroad, there’s life in the risen Lord.
Spread the news of the gift of God there’s life in the risen Lord.
God above desires it. Sinful man requires it
Jesus only is our message. Jesus our
entire theme shall be.
We will lift up Jesus ever. Jesus only
will we see.
Frank Rowley