The Gospel in my own words. Why I live for the Gospel. Why I would die for the Gospel.

Here is what changed my life, and still exhilarates me to preach to others and even myself:


1. You were born to be in a relationship with God, who loves you.

2. But something called 'sin' breaks that relationship, and sin must be paid for in Hell, because God is perfect and God is just, so He must punish sin.
- Sin is active rebellion against God, whether in your mind, in your heart, in what you do or in what you say. Sin is thinking you know better than God in refusing to follow His righteous commands.

3. Everyone is a sinner, therefore everyone deserves to go to Hell, and therefore nobody can have this relationship with God that they were born for!

4. However God is love in its fullness. He loved you so much that He sent down His only Son, Jesus Christ, to take on all the past, present, and future sins that you will ever commit in your lifetime.

5. And Jesus wasn't just any man. As the Son of God, He was completely human and yet also completely God. He had absolutely no sin while He lived on earth, but was tempted in every way by the devil himself. So being without sin, it made Him the perfect sacrifice so God could punish all the sins of humankind by putting them all on Him.

- Think about it this way: You are guilty of murder and are about to do be punished for life, but then Jesus steps into the court and declares that He will do your life prison sentence for you.

You are free.

6. All you have to do is believe. Can you honestly have a think about your life? Where you are going spiritually? At the end of your life, you will face God in all His majesty, splendour and perfection, and He will assess your every thought, word, and deed. Then He will determine where you are to spend your eternity.

We are all sinners against a perfect, righteous, loving God. For what you have done and are probably going to do, you will never be good enough. Neither will I ever be good enough. Jesus Christ gives us the opportunity to get things right with God, because He's paid for our sins. It's all been done. Finished. In Christ we experience a freedom like no other, because there is no fear in His amazing, unconditional love, which offers us a life that is eternal!

So this is why I live for the Gospel - I was born to know God, and so were you.

For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

In dying I will continue to know and worship God. That is Heaven. I hope I will see you there.