What the Gospel is

The gospel of the grace of God in Christ is universe exploding stuff. The gospel is the good news of God invading time and space and setting up residence on earth. Incarnational is a word because of it. No other conclusion can be reached but that God did what man could not, would not, did not dare to undertake. Jesus died for sin, sacrificed Himself, substituted Himself, taking the place of hell bound rebels thumbing their noses and shaking their fists at Him.

The gospel is good and it is news. Qualitatively good in the sense that nothing can compare with the unfathomable riches of Christ. Newsworthy in that nothing of greater significance can ever be told. Paul, in Romans 1:16, said he was "not ashamed of the gospel for it is the power of God for salvation." That sums it up well. It is power (Greek word dunamis, meaning explosive power,where we get our word 'dynamite') without limit. God, the all-powerful One, has unleashed His power in a big way upon sin and death and evil, and uses it to transform people into Jesus-loving, Bible-believing, gospel preaching, Jesus-inspired people of The Way in such a way that it has culminated in more glory to God. The gospel is beyond amazing.