The Gospel Is Always Good News https://youtube/watch?v=ZZzj_COIDSQ Sing the Gospel, sings salvation, tell the people all is well. Shout the good news from the mountain, all ye thankful go and tell. - Sing The Gospel by Carl Cartree Romans 15:20 (NLT) My ambition has always been to preach the Good News where the name of Christ has never been heard, rather than where a church has already been started by someone else. The Gospel by definition means “Good News” and there is never a time when it is not. It breaks the will of the proud, chastens and rebukes the sinner, lifts up the weary and downtrodden, and is a bright shining light in the darkness. This Good News takes our messes and makes them messages; it takes our ashes and creates beauty, it takes the weeping of our bitterness and pain and transforms them into tears of joy. The Good News gets our eyes off of ourselves and puts them on the One who came to earth, hung on a cross, died our death, rose from the grave three days later and ascended to the throne where He is interceding for us today. These are not simply wishful words attempting to blow air into an inflatable balloon man to prop him up and make it appear as something it is not. No, these are words that are true for this is the message of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and I have not only experienced the healing balm of grace as shown to me through the Gospel, but I have watched firsthand the power of the Gospel to be Good News in the midst of chaos, despair, and hopelessness. Religiosity is not good news. Trying to clean yourself up is not good news. Being moral, stopping your sin or becoming sober in and of itself is really of no eternal value to you. Attempting to earn your salvation through your church membership, church attendance, or your deeds of charity and kindness is actually the worst kind of news there can be for it wars against the good news of salvation by grace through faith. The Bible tells in John 14:6 that He ALONE is Good News, and that He is the only way to the Father. If you don’t know of this Good News won’t you come and taste and see that He is good? In light of the verse from Romans in today’s devotional we’ve focused thus far on the “Good News” aspect of it, but I want to close with the fact that Paul took the Good News where “…the Name of Christ had never been heard” and he went to a place that was not surrounded by Bible preaching/Gospel centered churches. By God’s grace and provision alone I have had the opportunity to travel both nationally and also internationally sharing the message that the Good News of the Gospel is for every person who hears it. I’ve been blessed by a decade long ministry through Setting Captives Free where I could tell captives of the message of freedom through Christ not only of their chains but also of their shame, and now most recently here on the Setting Captives Free Facebook page where I have the joy of periodically sending out a writing to you our “Friends”; many whom do not live in the United States. However, do you know that it was only within the last couple weeks that I shared my faith with my neighbor who I’ve lived beside for 3 years? My point is that the Good News is not only for the world, but also for those in closest proximity to me and that is the same for you. We’re moving in about a month from our quiet and secluded farm in rural Iowa (lived here for 40 years) to a condo complex in a city. I long to have a heart that desires to share the Good News with those around me that is as bold, as committed, and as confident as I am in its ability to transform the lives of people I’ll never meet or see in this life. May this always be my heartbeat. Colossians 1:11-14 May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, (12) giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. (13) He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, (14) in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. You are loved! Shon Bruellman
Posted on: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 17:01:13 +0000
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