The Gospel is good news!

Good news that there is hope, salvation, forgiveness, reconciliation, life, glory … for all of us.  Good news that we don’t have to do anything to get it, but that God is willing to freely give it to us.

Why? Because we deserve it?

Absolutely not! We are dead in our sins, separated from God our Creator, and it’s not just a passive state. We are actively enemies in our minds by wicked works, heading to a lost eternity, without hope.

‘But God … is rich in mercy’ (Eph 2:4)

There is good news for us – the Gospel.

‘For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.’ (Roms 6:23)

God wants to bless us with the gift of salvation – eternal life – and is able to because His eternal Son, Jesus Christ, willingly took our place under the wrath of God, was wounded for our sins, and died, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.

That death was on the cross, where Jesus suffered, going into the darkness and the place of separation, to cry ‘My God, why hast thou forsaken me?’, bear the wrath and judgement of Almighty God, and then die for our sins, to rise again the third day.

Without Jesus Christ there is no hope of salvation, no good news, no Gospel.

Without the cross there is no hope of salvation, no good news, no Gospel.

Therefore, the Gospel that we preach and make known can be summarised in four words.

Christ and Him Crucified