God's Story Vs. Our Stories
What is the Gospel? For many Christians today, the Gospel is the good news of how I got saved. In other words, “my conversion experience.” But is that the way the new testament uses the term Gospel or Good News? Not at all.
The apostles refer to the Gospel as a message concerning God’s Son, Jesus Christ. God made flesh, fulfilling all righteousness in our place, enduring our sentence on the Cross and being raised on the third day as the source of eternal life.
Where are you in that definition? Where am I? No where! That’s why it’s Good News.
The Gospel is the good news about who God is and what He’s done in spite of who we are. The Gospel is good news for us, precisely because it isn’t about us........
.......We shouldn’t assimilate Christ’s story to our own. What happened to us is the result of the Gospel, it isn’t the Gospel. “The Gospel” is what happened to Jesus Christ. It’s His story, not ours.
The text above is from a White Horse Inn broadcast, titled: "God's Story Vs. Our Stories." To listen to the entire broadcast, click on the links below:
God's Story Vs. Our Stories Part 1
