Gospel Clarity: What is the Gospel? Why Do We Need It? (2)

Gulf Coast Community Church - Sunday Sermons

Preacher: Jerry Cisar

“Our passion is to know that we are fulfilling the purpose for which we are here on earth.” — Os Guinness

Deep down, I believe Guinness is right and the Gospel calls us to that very purpose and equips us so we are able to fulfill it. (All good Evangelicals will say, “Amen!” here. But if pressed to explain how, we may well be stuck.)

Last week we began a series, Gospel Clarity: What is the Gospel? Why do we Need It? If we have a truncated Gospel we will likely not understand how it calls us to “the purpose for which we are here on earth” or equips us to fulfill it. Sadly, for many Christians, the Gospel is about the next life and has little or nothing to do with this life. If that is true of our Gospel, then it is, at best, a truncated Gospel, or Gospel-lite with half the spiritual calories.

We began this series in Isaiah 52:7 exploring what the Gospel is and why that matters. We will pick up this week in what may be Paul’s earliest letter, 1 Thessalonians, and explore the Gospel that calls us “to walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory” (1 Thess. 2:12). Does your Gospel call you to walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory? If not, it should. If so, how so?

Join us in worship as we explore Gospel Clarity.

Handout: https://gccc-recordings.s3.amazonaws.com/handouts/20240204.pdf