Do you know The Gospel?

I do. I mean, if you know me and don’t know that I would be slightly surprised, but more then know the Gospel I LOVE The Gospel. Without knowing that Jesus Christ has died for me, and made it possible to have a loving relationship with the creator of the UNIVERSE I would be… well a drunken sex and body-image obsessed women trying to force others to love me. The Gospel is what drives me, what causes me to love and live.

Do you love the gospel? Really actually LOVE it?

If yes: why do so many of our neighbors not know it?

Aren’t we a nation with church buildings on every other corner, a “Christian” nation. How then, do so many not know the True Gospel. If you know The Gospel, do you not love it? And if you do claim to love it, why are those YOU LOVE still without relationship with The King, Lord and Saviour? Why have YOU not chosen to tell them? Why have you kept from them the very thing that sustains, the very hope that encourages you when most broken? Do you think it’s “uncomfortable” or “rude” that you are “pushing you’re beliefs on someone else”? Stop believing the lie! Love is caring enough for someone else that you are willing to be uncomfortable, and die for them, so that they can hear and have a chance to respond to the truth!

And if they know, and you so kindly feel it’s in your right to judge them because they “aren’t living like people who are trying to do what Jesus did” why are YOU not teaching them what life is REALLY about. What following Christ really IS (a constant call to die to self, and live for Him). Why have you not chosen to train them in righteousness by pointing them to The Word? Why do you think it’s okay to act like the knowledge you’ve been given mercifully by Our King is something you somehow earned.

My heart breaks at this. At just the knowledge that there are so many people in America, a “Christian nation” who don’t even know THE GOSPEL. Let alone what Jesus grants to those who obey Him. WHY!?

I think a large part of the issue lies with these false notions: I am not good enough. I am not good enough to share the gospel, I do not know enough, there are others (i.e: pastors, missionaries, bible study leaders, priests…) who should be telling The Gospel, not me. These are boldfaced lies; it is your responsibility and it is mine, it is OUR job to “preach the word; in season and out of season” (2 Tim 4:2). A wise man has said “God’s plan is His People”, and His people includes every single one of us who knows and loves The Gospel.

It causes my heart to twist with agony when I think of the many people who desperately need and are waiting for SOMEONE, (i.e: you and me) to give them The Gospel.

So please, Love someone - today.