The centrality of the gospel has been in my mind for a couple of weeks now. The gospel is the good news that we often forget. But the gospel has to be for every day living. Without it, we don't truly live and we have no hope.Tullian Tchividjian points out that the gospel is not just salvation for sinners. It is also necessary for spiritual maturity. I've extracted and made some slight edits on portions of his blog post that help to explain this further :
All our problems in life stem from our failure to apply the gospel. This means I can’t really move forward unless I learn more thoroughly the gospel’s content and how to apply it to all of life. Real change does not and cannot come independently of the gospel. God intends his Good News in Christ to mold and shape us at every point and in every way. It increasingly defines the way we think, feel, and live.
Spiritual poverty in so much of our Christian experience is the result of inadequate understanding of the gospel’s depths. The answer isn’t to try harder in the Christian life but to comprehend more fully and clearly Christ’s finished work for sinners and then to live in more vital awareness of that grace day by day. The main problem in the Christian life, in other words, is not that we don’t try hard enough to be good. It’s that we haven’t accepted the deep implications of the gospel and applied its powerful reality to all parts of our life.
He asks this great question that we should take time to reflect on :
How does the finished work of Christ satisfy my deepest daily needs so that I can experience the liberating power of the gospel every day and in every way?
I've come up with several answers in head already. Will write them in the next posts. How about you, what is your answer? Feel free to reply in the comments.
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