The Gospel

Evangelion – Greek word, signifying good, merry, glad, and joyful news, that makes a man’s heart
glad and makes him sing, dance and leap for joy – William Tyndale

Reading this book, I’ve understood more the power of God’s words for me. He left an amazing
guidance for us and how the Church needs to guide us.

Our churches are not perfect but when God is there, and we let Him to guide us everything become
perfect, and we can see that people are coming to church to hear the “good news of great joy”. And
the amazing thing in all this, is when we can see people coming to God, and leaving behind their sin,
only because our churches are giving them the right message via God’s gospel.

And again, we receive the most powerful word from the gospel (For God so loved the world, that he
gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. – John 3:16),
and we receive such an explanation for this good news that God loves us and give us an amazing gift
– the eternal life. The Christian gospel does not ask us to settle for something. It begins with the
almighty God, who, amazingly, doesn’t despite the world but loves the world. That’s who God really
is. It’s what the Bible says. Let’s believe it. How did God love the world? Not moderately, but
massively. God loves the world not because we are lovable but because He is love. (1 John 4:16)

His Son come in this unclean word, He dies for us, and even if He knew how bad our sin will be even
after his death, he did it for us, he wanted us to understand that his love can’t be measurable. He
lived a clean life, without sin and he loved all of us, he showed us the love that we should have for all
people around us, he showed us how our churches should be, he guides us with a real love, he
shows us that gospel doctrine creates a gospel culture, and it matters.

What is a church? A church is a body of believers in Jesus, together drawing their life from him in
regular, practical, organised ways that accelerate their progress for Him. We are all one body; we are
all together in God.

Our belonging to a church matters so much to God because he likes to live between us, and he is
with us, and he likes us to be together, because in that way we can have Him there, He wants to
dwell among his people. And is worthy to belong to a church that belong to God.

We are full of sin, but God gives us all and He demands all, only an exclusive love is a real love, our
God is a jealous God (ex 34:14) He wants us for Him, and nothing in this word can be compared with
Him and His glory.

The hope of the gospel is far more than a psychological boost to help us ramp up for Monday
morning. Look at the magnitude of what God has promised us: “For behold, I create new heavens
and a new earth, and the former things, shall not be remembered or come into mind.” (Isa 65:17) In
that final day when all of us will be together nothing will matter apart from us and God, there will
not be illness, unhappiness, or anything bad that we are experienced on this world now., therefore
we are keep going and believe in God and His word now.

Becoming a Christian doesn’t just add something to the old you; it creates a new you. Thanks to
Jesus, our experience is glorious even now, and we possess the promise of an eternal glory still to
come. That wonderful day will never end. There will be no post-honeymoon let down. Forever and
ever our total experience will be love between us and our Saviour. We will never experience
anything else, anything less.
This is the true magnitude of the biblical gospel: There will be nothing old, dilapidated, impure, or
worn out in the radiant kingdom of Christ.

The beauty of human relationships is the church is itself an argument for the gospel, just as tender
romance that endures for a lifetime is an argument for marriage when marriage is doubted. When
the gospel is doubted, a beautiful church that sticks together is an unanswerable argument in out
angry and divided the world. He has adopted us as his children through Christ (Rom 8:15)
Justification clears us legally of guilt before our Judge, but adoption includes us emotionally in the
heart of our Father. The household of God must offer a clear and lovely alternative to the madness
of this word. In our churches, God calls us to reach for something better than what many of us have
ever experienced.

A faithful church, in other words, holds the gospel up for everyone to see and firms the gospel up as
credible and solid. Church is called to be a pillar lifting high the truth of the gospel. As a pillar and
buttress of the truth, our churches are God’s Plan A for world redemption, and he has no Plan B.

To believe in the gospel is not an easy thing, it reveals to us some amazing things and is telling us
how much God can love some sinners like us, feels impossible, and we either proudly believe that
we are too good to be judged, or we proudly believe that we are too bad to be saved. Do the gospel
is a continual surprise, and we need to hear it again and again, to don’t let our unbelief to stop us
from spreading the gospel.

A lot of times we are trying to do everything by ourselves, we are even saying that we know better
than God and we end up crying to Him for help, will not be easy to go to Him first as this is what the
gospel teaches us, it isn’t easy, but it is possible.

We have lots of fears, but the fear is not coming from God, he is teaching us to be fearless, we
shouldn’t let the people opinion to chance our attitude through God, church, or the gospel. A gospel
culture is not easy. But is possible. There is nothing mechanical or formulaic about living by faith in
Christ. It means looking away from ourselves to Him. As we look to Him, he will help us, he always
does, and he will always do, and He always will.

“We are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are
perishing” (2 Cor 2:15) – it is about the strong scent of Christ that people detect when our churches
are filled with the gospel. How amazing that they should experience Christ himself through us” We
are unlike Him in so many ways. Still, His scent comes through. How amazing is to can have this in
our churches, to have the God scent in us and show this around to people and bring the people to
Him ourselves. How good is to be light where everything is dark, to bring that light in people life
when they can’t see it. In fact, exposure to the gospel makes the true condition of people’s hearts
more and more obvious.

As Christians, we should not be discouraged when we are misjudged and mistreated. It is a part of
gospel ministry. We should expect it and accept it for Lord’s sake. In an age when personal
unhappiness is often regarded as someone else’s fault, some people walk into church looking for a
scapegoat. Again, let’s stay humble and honestly admit every failing. Faithfulness makes enemies on
earth. But faithfulness also has a friend and advocate on high: “Blessed are you when others revile
you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be
glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you”
(Matt 5:11-12)
Hope you are convinced that gospel doctrine is true to the Bible and that gospel culture is
humanizing to people. Given the corruption of our hearts (Jer 17:9), the first thing to do is to kneel
before God and humbly beg him to hold on to us. To tell Him everything and let him take the control
in your life, you will have only to win doing this.

Within the range of the opportunities he graciously gives, I see three simple treasures that every one
of us and our churches can reach for: POWER, COURAGE, and LOVE. They are biblical and also, they
do not require no money or particular worship style – they are stand at the defining centre of that
church.

Power – the gospel is the power of God (Rom 1:16) Courage – “Whoever would save his life will lose
it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it” (Mark 8:35), Love – “Let all
that you do be done in love” (1Cor 16:14).

Jesus told us that the unbelieving world will identify us as Christians only as we reflect his loveliness.
He is commanding us to love one another, with the same love that He have for us. He is also praying
for us in John 17, for us to be one with Him and the Father.

The wonderful thing is that, when we love our way, God is not hard to find again. He is findable, He
is our light in the dark and at the same time we need to be the light for everyone around us. It is
refreshing to come back from the dark and after becoming light, and felling loved and spreading love
to people around us. It is there that Jesus is glorified in the eyes of the World.

Gospel doctrine creates a gospel culture.

GOD PUTS HIS BEAUTY INTO OUR CHURCHES BY HIS GOSPEL!