OR “Why the Resurrection is Essential to Your Salvation” (in honor of Holy Week)
Much of my writing is presented to refute false teaching in the fundamentalist and evangelical Christian world. But I always want to point my readers to what is true, right, and good.
This Holy Week—the week that Christians especially honor the Lord Jesus Christ for all He has done for us, the week that culminates with a celebration of His Resurrection for us—I want to zero in on The Gospel.
Through the years that I’ve been in this evangelical world, I’ve pondered how much the term “gospel” is presented as vital, while at the same time how seldom those who use the term “gospel” have actually defined and described what they mean by it.
But understanding what “the gospel” is can mean the difference between death and life.
The popular definition of “the gospel”
“The gospel” is currently taught in evangelical circles like this:
When you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, then through His death (“the cross”), you are forgiven of your sins.
This teaching of the cross, with its substitutionary atonement and forgiveness, is vital to the believer.
But it’s incomplete.
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JOY. JOY!! JOY‼️‼️
Thanks for this beautiful resurrection week synopsis Rebecca ❤️
It gives a different point to ponder each day of this holy week of remembrance. I am learning how to be thankful for ALL the gospel does for me now and in eternity! ( reading through “The Rest of the Gospel” for the third time)
Oh I love this so much, QuietRunner! Thank you! Yes, He is our joy!
“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
Hebrews 12:2 KJV
This joy ( especially meaning His gladness to be with us/me) gives this scripture i have always loved, even more significance this Resurrection week
Oh my goodness yes, I love that!
It warms my heart to hear you say these things and think of many others reading it also. These truths changed my life also long ago, and I did NOT hear them in any of my church circles. Now I am part of organic church circles where we not only emphasize this, but also flesh it out. The books that talk about this are often considered classics, yet few seem to have read them…
Ah, so very true. When I discovered these truths, I wondered why in the world they weren’t being taught in the churches??!! They bring freedom, strength, a change of desires, a heart that is actually enabled to live for God.
But they don’t make it easy to manipulate a group of people the way some of the other teachings do. Perhaps I have become cynical (I don’t think so, actually), but that is the direction I’m leaning as to the explanation for why these truths about the gospel are so little taught.
I have and am continuing to glean these same truths from Walter Marshall’s book, Sanctification or The Highway of Holiness. Thank you for this post!
So glad to hear it! And thank you for that recommendation.