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What does it mean to structure Resonate with the centrality of the Gospel? In other words, how does the Gospel function as the centerpiece of our ministry?
The Gospel’s Centrality
The gospel is not just the A-B-Cs, but the A to Z of Christianity. The Gospel is not just the way we enter God’s kingdom, but the way we thrive within the kingdom. We are not saved through the Gospel and then forced to maintain our salvation through obedience, but the Gospel is the way we grow (Gal. 3:1-3) and are renewed (Col. 1:6). It is the solution to each problem, the key to each closed door, the power to face every roadblock of life (Rom. 1:16-17).
The Gospel’s Core Meaning
The Gospel is not that we demonstrate our own righteousness before God as offering to only expect something from Him in return, but that He demonstrates His righteousness through Jesus Christ and then freely imputes His righteousness to us (2 Cor. 5:21). The Gospel is not that “it doesn’t matter what you believe, as long as you’re good,” but that “it doesn’t matter if you’re good, as long as you believe in Christ as your Savior.” The Gospel is not that we go from being irreligious to being religious; it’s that we realize that our motives for both religiosity and irreligiousness were essentially the same and essentially wrong—they’re both self salvation projects driven by the motive of keeping control of our own lives.
To the degree that we rely on something other than Jesus to save us (such as moral performance, career, romance, family, wealth), we experience anger, fear, guilt, and despair. But when we trust in Christ as our Savior, we no longer trust in our own abilities, moralism or hedonism, or any other method to make a way for ourselves to obtain security and comfort.
Resonate assumes that most people have not heard of or thought through the full implications of the Gospel. We exist to bring things “in alignment with the gospel” (Gal. 2:14), which renews us spiritually, psychologically, corporately, socially. The Gospel avoids the errors of legalism and liberalism, moralism and relativism, yet it does not produce something in between, but rather something different altogether. The Gospel critiques both religion and irreligion (Matt. 21:31). It shows us a God far more holy than the legalist can bear (Jesus had to die because we could not satisfy God’s holy demands) and yet far more merciful than the liberal can conceive (Jesus had to die because God loves us).
The Gospel affects everything we do at Resonate, which in turn provokes in us a movement to bring wholeness to our families, our neighborhoods, and to our city.
But how does the Gospel affect us in our daily lives? Click here to find out!
