The Gospel is not only the gateway into the Christian life, but the pathway of the Christian life.
"Gospel-centered preaching." "Gospel-centered parenting." "Gospel-centered discipleship." The back of my business card says "gospel-centered publishing." This descriptive mantra is tagged on to just about anything and everything in the Christian world these days.
What's it all about?
Before articulating what it might mean to be Gospel-centered, we all better be on the same page as to what the Gospel actually is.
I don't mean Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
What I mean by "Gospel" in this article is the outrageous news of what has been done for us by God in Jesus. The Gospel is the front page of the newspaper, not the back-page advice column; news of what has happened, not advice on how to live.
Specifically, the Gospel is the startling news that what God demands from us, He provides for us. How? In His own Son. The Gospel is the message that Jesus Christ delights to switch places with guilty rebels. The one Person who walked this earth who deserved heaven endured the wrath of hell so that those who deserve the wrath of hell can have heaven for free.
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