It’s not that I didn’t understand or believe the gospel before. I did. But the truth of the gospel hadn’t moved from my mind to my heart. There was a huge gap between my intellect and my emotions. The Puritan Jonathan Edwards likened his reawakening to the gospel to a man who had known, in his head, that honey was sweet, but for the first time had that sweetness burst alive in his mouth.
J.D. GreearTags: heart emotions intellect gospel head jonathan-edwards
My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.
J.D. GreearTags: identity god security jesus gift christ gospel
When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.
J.D. GreearTags: worship idolatry gospel idols
It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security.
J.D. GreearTags: experience identity change security christ gospel
Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.
J.D. GreearTags: soul christian gospel gospel-centered
Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts
J.D. GreearTags: god gospel holy-spirit gospel-truth life-change
Rags-to-riches story? I've heard that gospel before, no thanks. I find no greater inspiration than the riches-to-rags story of redemption, the story of God leaving His golden throne to pursue a wretch like me.
T. William WattsTags: wealth inspiration christian gospel riches rags
In answer, the news of the Gospel is that extraordinary things happen. ... Lear goes berserk on a heath but comes out of it for a few brief hours every inch a king. Zaccheus climbs up a sycamore tree a crook and climbs down a saint. Paul sets out a hatchet man for the Pharisees and comes back a fool for Christ.
Frederick BuechnerTags: fairy-tales king-lear gospel paul zaccheus
Jesus Christ came not to condemn you but to save you, knowing your name, knowing all about you, knowing your weight right now, knowing your age, knowing what you do, knowing where you live, knowing what you ate for supper and what you will eat for breakfast, where you will sleep tonight, how much your clothing cost, who your parents were. He knows you individually as though there were not another person in the entire world. He died for you as certainly as if you had been the only lost one. He knows the worst about you and is the One who loves you the most.
If you are out of the fold and away from God, put your name in the words of John 3:16 and say, “Lord, it is I. I’m the cause and reason why Thou didst on earth come to die.” That kind of positive, personal faith and a personal Redeemer is what saves you. If you will just rush in there, you do not have to know all the theology and all the right words. You can say, “I am the one He came to die for.” Write it down in your heart and say, “Jesus, this is me—Thee and me,” as though there were no others. Have that kind of personalized belief in a personal Lord and Savior.
Tags: lost god salvation jesus die knowing personal gospel john-3-16 redeem
Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
Frederick BuechnerTags: grace tragedy sin comedy gospel presence
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