Good news for everyone!

Christianity is good news for everyone. The Christian message is explained by the Bible story which is about Jesus Christ and what he has done. It’s sometimes called the ‘gospel’, a word that simply means ‘good news.’

At a personal level, the good news can be summarised under four main headings: God, People, Jesus, Response.

God is our loving creator. He made us in his image and we are accountable to him. But we have failed to worship, love and obey God as we should. We are separated from God because of this and deserve his condemnation. Yet God has come to us. Jesus of Nazareth took our human nature to live the life we could never live, a life without any wrong, and die the death we deserve to die, a death for our wrongdoing. We must respond to the good news of Jesus death and resurrection by turning from our sin and placing our faith in Jesus. When we do, God forgives us, adopts us into his family and gives the Holy Spirit as the guarantee of eternal life with him in a new heaven and new earth. The alternative is that we are separated from the presence of God forever in hell.

Alongside this personal level, the Bible teaches how Christianity is good news for our world. This is emphasised in Bible plot-line: Creation, Fall, Redemption, Restoration. This describes the perfect beginning of God’s world, what went wrong, what God has done in Jesus to put things right and what will happen in the end.

Christianity is the best news ever! God is not only saving lost and broken people like us but he is restoring our broken world. Through Jesus Christ we can enjoy a relationship with God right now and can look forward with hope to being with him forever in his perfected new creation.