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    ARTICLE THE GOSPEL GRID

    “The gospel” is a phrase that Christians often use without fully understanding its significance.
    We speak the language of the gospel, but we rarely apply the gospel to every aspect of our lives.
    Yet this is exactly what God wants for us. The gospel is nothing less than “the power of God”
    (Rom. 1:16). In Colossians 1:6, the apostle Paul commends the Colossian church because the
    The G ospel–C entered L ife

    gospel has been “bearing fruit and growing…among [them] since the day [they] heard it.” The
    apostle Peter teaches that a lack of ongoing transformation in our lives comes from forgetting
    what God has done for us in the gospel (2 Peter 1:3–9). If we are to grow into maturity in Christ,
    we must deepen and enlarge our understanding of the gospel as God’s appointed means for
    personal and communal transformation.

    Many Christians live with a truncated view of the gospel. We see the gospel as the “door,” the
    way in, the entrance point into God’s kingdom. But the gospel is so much more! It is not just the
    door, but the path we are to walk every day of the Christian life. It is not just the means of our
    salvation, but the means of our transformation. It is not simply deliverance from sin’s penalty,
    but release from sin’s power. The gospel is what makes us right with God (justification) and it
    is also what frees us to delight in God (sanctification). The gospel changes everything!

    The following model has been helpful to


    many people in thinking about the gos- 
    
    
    pel and its implications. This diagram 
    
    
     
    does not say everything that could be 
    
      
    
    said about the gospel, but it does serve 
     
    as a helpful visual illustration of how the 
    

    gospel works.  


    
     
    
     
    The starting point of the Christian life 
    
    

    
    (conversion) comes when I first become 
    
     
    
    aware of the gap between God’s holiness 
    
    
     

    
    
    
    and my sinfulness. When I am convert-
    ed, I trust and hope in Jesus, who has
    done what I could never do: he has bridged the gap between my sinfulness and God’s holiness.
    He has taken God’s holy wrath toward my sin upon himself.

    At the point of conversion, however, I have a very limited view of God’s holiness and of my sin.
    The more I grow in my Christian life, the more I grow in my awareness of God’s holiness and
    of my flesh and sinfulness. As I read the Bible, experience the Holy Spirit’s conviction, and live
    in community with other people, the extent of God’s greatness and the extent of my sin become
    increasingly clear and vivid. It is not that God is becoming more holy or that I am becoming

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    License to print 50 copies purchased by Werner on 08/19/2009. For additional licenses, please visit whm.org/gcl. Thank you.

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