During my Christmas break last month, I read The Gospel and Personal Evangelism by Mark Dever. To my understanding, Pastor Dever has an intense desire to see more and more Christians involve themselves in evangelism. What is evangelism? Well, at the heart and center of biblical evangelism is the gospel. What is the gospel? Try this:
The good news is that the one and only God, who is holy, made us in His image to know Him. But we sinned and cut ourselves off from Him. In His great love, God became a man in Jesus, lived a perfect life, and died on the cross, thus fulfilling the law Himself and taking on Himself the punishment for the sins of all those who would ever turn and trust in Him. He rose again from the dead, showing that God accepted Christ's sacrifice and that God's wrath against us had been exhausted. "In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will... In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses." (Eph. 1) This one and only God, "gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds." (Titus 2)
Humbly Submitted,
JE
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