“Remember that the gospel is not a list of duties to be performed, or feelings to be produced, or frames which we are to pray ourselves into, in order to make God think well of us, and in order to fit us for receiving pardon. The gospel is the good news of the great work done upon the cross. The knowledge of that finished work is immediate peace.”
If Christianity is something great but you do not need it, then who cares about it? If Christianity is something great but it’s not for you, there is no joy in that either. But what if Christianity is something great, and you need it, and it’s for you? Luke 2 shows us what Christianity is all about and how it comes crashing into the lives of people who desperately need it…
Romans 1-5 is about good news, not good advice. Romans 6 begins by anticipating a normal response to such radical grace: If salvation is by grace alone, then how do people change? Why be good and do good at all?…
Romans is the Mount Everest of the Bible and is single-handedly responsible for almost every major spiritual awakening, revival, or outpouring of God’s Spirit in church history. Why is Romans so life-changing? The answer: Romans is about the gospel… Romans releases the gospel.
If Gallup polled the un-churched in Hillsboro, TX, or Dallas, TX or NYC, NY, and asked, “Is Christianity about good advice or good news,” how do you think the majority would answer? No poll needed… the statistics are in and available.
