Concise gospel
Faustino de Jesús Zamora Vargas
SUMMARY: To make the gospel more effective, we need to live it out fully, not just theologize it in theory. The gospel becomes supernatural when it is incarnated in our daily lives. We need to have a living faith in Christ that is reflected in our actions and relationships. The concise gospel is not about clerical structures or human ministries, but about the simple conviction that God loves us and expects us to love others. Theology should be tailored to our spiritual needs and centered on Christ. Christianity should be seen as a better way to live, renewing and encouraging us with purpose and joy. Let us reflect the image of Christ in our lives.
For the gospel to be more effective, we have to assimilate it all, entirely. There is a tendency to theologize the good news in doctrinal and theoretical framework, but little initiative to put theory into practice. This, inevitably, generates a synthetic faith. Christian culture is naive in believing that the message of salvation alone is sufficient to draw souls to Christ. There are preachers preaching on the air and others who fill churches with a vain and malnourished message. The truth is that the gospel takes on a supernatural dimension when it is incarnated. The boundary line between the Christian and the atheist struggles to disappear. May God save us from crossing our arms to see the coffin of faith pass before our eyes without major consequences. The good fight must be fought. “Fight the good fight of faith; make yours the eternal life, to which you were called… ”(1 Tim 6.12).
Do you know what kind of faith I'm talking about? Faith when you tremble before the name of God, faith when you recognize your insufficiency in difficult situations, faith when you do not understand the purposes of God in what is happening in you and your family, but you know that "it will help you good", faith when You pray for the impossible trusting that He will work, faith when you are thrown into the den of lions and you know in advance that the Lord will feed them so that they do not reduce you to a mass of flesh and blood.
Do you know what kind of faith I'm talking about? Faith when you tremble before the name of God, faith when you recognize your insufficiency in difficult situations, faith when you do not understand the purposes of God in what is happening in you and your family, but you know that "it will help you good", faith when You pray for the impossible trusting that He will work, faith when you are thrown into the den of lions and you know in advance that the Lord will feed them so that they do not reduce you to a mass of flesh and blood.
