For quite a while now I’ve been reading my Bible with an eye out for gospel oriented language that either describes its content or is an example of its proclamation, particularly the book of Acts.
Over the months I’ve tried to construct my own personal summary of this biblical language. It’s gone through many revisions, but this is what I have so far.
The gospel is the Good News that even though we have ignored God and rebelled against our Creator, instead of immediately punishing us as our sin deserves, He took on our humanity, was born of the virgin Mary, lived the perfect life we could not live, died the death we deserved, rose from the dead on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and now calls all men everywhere to repent and trust in Jesus Christ alone for the forgiveness of their sin(s) and as their righteousness before God who was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, and establishing His Kingdom through the rule of His Word and Spirit in the lives of those who trust and follow Him, until He returns to judge the living and the dead and who shall either enjoy and worship Him forever or suffer eternal damnation for rejecting Him and His offer of salvation.
Let me know if I’m missing anything important.
