What is our Gospel

Christianity is not about sin.

it is not about trying to make ourselves better and working as hard as we can to earn our salvation.

It is about Jesus,

and what God did through him,

in his life,

death,

ressurection

and assension.

It is about the freedom

from worry,

anxiety,

sin,

mistakes,

and regrets we have and have made and will make, because of our wonderful savior.

If we are not free,

If we do not have:

joy,

peace,

grace,

hope

and most of all

love;

but instead

frustration,

depression,

anxiety,

dispare

and fear

based on our faith,

we have bad theology and should never want to speak or spread that gospel to anyone.


I tried for so long to earn my salvation

I tried so long to make myself better

but my focus was not on Christ

My focus was to move up the corporate latter of the church.

My focus was to make others

like me,

love me,

and look at me.

I would preach love, but not feel loved

I would preach grace, but hide my sin

I would preach hope, but not know it

I would preach peace, but never have it.

I would preach faith, but would have immense doubt.

I would preach joy, but would feel competley depressed.

In the words of Derek Webb

"The Gospel has not failed us, We just fail to believe it."

You are loved Imperfect, sinful, vulgar, wrong, and twisted you may be But You are loved.

You are forgiven,

You have hope to be made right,

You have hope in the grace and love of God through Christ.

It is not about what you do, it is about what He has already done.

Be real!

Be who you are!

Bring that to church.

Bring that to Jesus.

Take off the mask of "i have it all together"

Take off the mask of "i can do it on my own"

Because you don't, and you can't.

Quit Judging other people And realize,

if you are a Christian, that you are in the same boat as those who are not.

And if you are not a Christian,

that hope, love, joy, peace, and grace, are yours for the taking.

We have a mighty big and Glorious savior.

but we only will realize it if we understand

our mighty big and vulgar sin.

I am an adulterer, i judge others, i am vain, i murder others with my thoughts, i am impatient, i use people to get what i want, i minipulate, I smoke cigarettes because it is a crutch, i get drunk to forget about things and try and have a good time. I pop pills to make me feel ok. I lust after girls becuase i don't trust that God will provide. I waste money on myself to make me look like i have it all together even though my finaces are a wreck. I say that i am generous, but most of my money goes to either filling a void in my heart, giving me security, or filling my stomach. I hold grudges. If someone hurts me, even though outwardly i say i forgive them, i really want them to hurt as bad as i do which causes bitterness. I am strait, I do cancer research, i love other people. i am a people pleaser, i am a guitar player, i am a writer, i am a poet, i am a skiier, I am a fast driver, I am a lover and a frigher, I am an arminienist, i am non-denominational, i am a reader, i am an extrovert, i am a son, a brother, a cousin, a nephew, a data manager, a soccer player and on and on and on.

The most important though,

and the only ture identity i can seek,

is that i am loved, deeply loved, by Jesus Christ,

who is my savior,

my redeemer,

and my God.

"Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name, under heaven, given to men, by which we must be saved." - Acts 4:12

Be who you are, Seek the Lord, and let him change you.