January 17, 2010

• "the Gospel" ("the good news")

  Several months ago, a group of Christian friends and I were asked by a mutual friend to compose in one or two sentances our own answers to the question: "What is the good news of Jesus Christ?"   Here are our answers, for you to ponder...   (and, if you are a follower of Jesus Christ, to REJOICE in!)

   

  "What is the good news of Jesus Christ?"
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  That you are loved beyond your imagination by God who created you and, though knowing every secret thing about you, desires intimacy with you for eternity.

  God is actively rescuing us from the brokenness of this world through the life and work of Jesus Christ.

  God's gracious and merciful response to human sin.  Jesus' work is the only cure for our chronic sin disease.

  God, who created and loves man more than words can say, sent his only Son to die on the cross to reconcile our sins so that we can have eternal life if we confess our sins and believe.

  Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died as a sinless sacrifice to bridge the gap of sin that separates humans from God forever, so that by believing this we can live in the presence of God forever.

  Joyful news that Christ has reconciled finally God and man through his death on the cross and resurrection, and that through Him we may have life everlasting.

  God, instead of sending us all to the eternal destruction that we deserve, has instead taken upon Himself the penalty for His people's sins (sending Christ to die in our place), and then raised Christ from the dead and has given us His Spirit to live in our bodies to cause us to act more and more like Christ, with the eventual future result of a completely renewed creation and eternal joyful fellowship between God and His people.

  Reconciliation with God and with man.

  God's solution to our brokenness.

  God rescues mankind.

  We were made by God in His image, yet we fell into sin.  Jesus Christ died for our sins so that we can be restored to our relationship with God in order to rejoin with God in heaven.

  God loves His creation and desires that we would be reconciled to him so he sent His son, Jesus Christ, into the world as the ultimate sacrifice for our sins, something that only one who lived a blameless life could have done.  We are redeemed by Christ's blood and await for when this world will be redeemed and a new world formed.

   

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