The gospel is good news about a person
Excerpt from The Twisted Scriptures:
“The gospel, by etymology, is good news.
It is not a system of doctrine, a philosophy of life, a compilation of laws, or a code of ethics.
It is good news about a person and what that person has done for us in our hopeless, helpless and hapless condition.”
– W. Carl Ketcherside
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Every day in October I’m sharing a short quote on grace from a favorite book.
- Body, I forgive you
- Because God sees no undesirables, neither should we
That is a very good and important point. Church people seem to love dogma though (just been reading about the debates leading up to the councils of Nicaea).
Incidentally my mother loved that 70s musical Godspell. I still find myself singing some of the songs.
David
There is no better news than knowing that the Good News is a Person who did something about the problem of sin. Eternal life is the BEST news!!
GOD BLESS!
Thanks, Lisa, for the help with the comment problem. Hopefully, all is well now.
So grateful for Him.
Good reminder, Lisa! We humans just love to complicate things, don’t we ? 🙂 I’m slowly catching up on your series!