Your current system is perfectly designed to keep producing the exact result you keep getting.Dallas Willard

The Two-Chapter The Two-Chapter GospelGospelIs Our Gospel Too Small?

The Two-Chapter The Two-Chapter GospelGospelIs Our Gospel Too Small?

The Gospel We All Were Given

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the

present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father…GALATIANS 1:3-4

The Two-Chapter Gospel

Romans 3:22b “There is no

difference, 23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…”

Romans 3:24 “…and are justified

freely by his grace through the

redemption that came by Christ

Jesus.”

Good News for Rats!but sad news for ‘squirrels’

• Everybody’s a RAT, nobody’s a squirrel!

• God isn’t out to exterminate all the rats!

“Any gospel that is not announcing a new society at work in the world, what the Apostle Paul called the

church, is simply not a [big enough] gospel.” Scot McKnight, New Testament professor, North Park University

What Must I Do to Be Saved?

• Believe in Jesus (John 3:16)– Sins forgiven– Name written in the Book of Life

• Use your new-found freedom and power in Christ, here and now, to live a life so transformed that others glimpse in it the possibility of their own and the world’s transformation (2 Cor 5:19)– “God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ,

not counting people’s sins against them”

But let justice roll on like a

river, righteousness

like a never-failing stream!

Amos 5:24