What is the Gospel?
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The word Gospel means Good News.
Sometimes people use the word as though it means 'truth'. Obviously the Gospel is true, it is the truth, but above all it is Good News.
So what is the News? And why is it so Good?
A good summary of the Gospel can be found in the Bible book of Romans Chapter 1. It is the good news 'of God' (verse 1) and from God who 'promised it' (v2) and it is 'regarding His Son' (v3). So it is all about Jesus who is both human (v3) and the 'Son of God' (v4) as proved by the Resurrection. Paul, the writer of Romans, says that the Gospel is the 'power of God for salvation to everyone who believes' (v16). In other words, the Good News is that by His Son, Jesus, God saves us when we believe - and it is for everyone!
Do you want to be right with God? You can be by trusting what God has done for us through Jesus (v17).
John, one of Jesus' friends also give a good summary of the Gospel when he says "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3 v 16 NIV).
Now that is Good News!
The Gospels (plural, with an 's') refers to the first four books of the New Testament which tell the narrative about who Jesus is, what he said and did, and why he died and rose again from the dead. These are the main accounts of the Good News described above.
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