What is the Gospel?

The gospel of Jesus Christ is the good news at the heart of everything we are and everything we believe. How important it is, therefore, for us to gain a robust understanding of what this news is, how it shapes our community, and how it directs every aspect of our lives.

• Resource Collection: What is the Gospel?

• Book: What is the Gospel? by Greg Gilbert

• Book: The Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler

• Article: Carson: What Is the Gospel? By Justin Taylor

• Article: What is the Gospel? by Greg Gilbert

• Essay: The Gospel by N. Gray Sutanto

• Group Study: The Gospel-Centered Life by World Harvest Mission

How does the gospel shape our everyday lives?

The gospel isn’t just the doorway into the Christian life—it’s the truth at the center of it. Here are some helpful resources to help us see how the Gospel shapes everything:

• Article: The Centrality of the Gospel by Tim Keller

• Book: Gospel Fluency by Jeff Vanderstelt (Gospel Fluency Handbook Video Series)

How do we grow in the gospel?

Familiarity breeds contempt, but may it never be so with the good news of Jesus Christ! For us to “grow in the gospel,” we must become continually more aware of two truths: God’s holiness and our sinfulness. As these two truths become more real to us, the beauty of the gospel becomes more real to us as well.

• PDF: The Gospel Grid by World Harvest Mission

  (Other explanations of the “cross chart”: Cross Chart Part 1 & Cross Chart Part 2.)

• PDF: Shrinking the Cross by CRU

What is the relationship between kingdom and cross?

• Article: How Does the Cross of Christ Make Sense of the Kingdom of God? by Jeremy Treat