Sublime

The man I came to know well, over burgers and coffee and old photos and worn bible pages, was a man childlike and growing to the end, proof that the “good news” he always preached could be lived for a lifetime and remain good. His faith and life’s accomplishments did not produce a dour moralism. It did not produce a Graceland-sized ego. For all his

“The truth of the Gospel is the principle article of all Christian doctrine. . . . Most necessary is it that we know this article well, teach it to others, and beat it into their heads continually.”14

His basic hermeneutic for understanding the Bible was to ask the question of every passage: Is this law, or is this gospel?

Our task is to display the richness of what Jesus offers his people in believing a gospel that creates a sense of belonging we can experience nowhere but in the church and a behavior that will allow us to live in line with and more fully experience the God who created us.

It is easy to get distracted and sidetracked from your mission because Satan would rather have you do anything besides sharing your faith.

Start looking around at your personal mission field and pray, “God, who have you put in my life for me to tell about Jesus?”