Things I Love | The Gospel

I am starting a new blog series... It's called "Things I Love..." I want to highlight some of the things that are dear to me.

The first installment is on the Gospel. Go ahead, say it. I am a one trick pony. I love the gospel. It is the one drum that I bang on. You want to know why? Its because it is dear to me. The gospel has crashed over me afresh over and over again. I don't think I could ever get tired of it... and I'm pretty sure that Scripture affirms that too. One million years from now I will still be wrecked by the gospel... I will still be worshiping Jesus. Incredible.

Also, it is important to me that I wear primary belief's on my sleeve. The Gospel is a primary... It isn't assumed. It's the main event. So many people assume the Gospel, but get excited about something else... Please God never let anything overtake my passion for the Gospel.

D.A. Carson comments on the importance of gospel primacy:

If I have learned anything in 35 or 40 years of teaching, it is that students don’t learn everything I teach them. What they learn is what I am excited about, the kinds of things I emphasize again and again and again and again. That had better be the gospel.

If the gospel—even when you are orthodox—becomes something which you primarily assume, but what you are excited about is what you are doing in some sort of social reconstruction, you will be teaching the people that you influence that the gospel really isn’t all that important. You won’t be saying that—you won’t even mean that—but that’s what you will be teaching. And then you are only half a generation away from losing the gospel.

Make sure that in your own practice and excitement, what you talk about, what you think about, what you pray over, what you exude confidence over, joy over, what you are enthusiastic about is Jesus, the gospel, the cross. And out of that framework, by all means, let the transformed life flow.

So I make sure that the Gospel is always on my lips. I read about it. I write about it. I let my life be consumed by it.


HT: Justin Taylor