FIVE MAJOR EVENTS are revealed across the synoptic Gospels: the birth of Christ, the ministry of Christ, the passion of Christ, the risen Christ, and the second coming of Christ. Luke, a doctor and companion of Paul, writes his own account. He pays special attention to the humanity of Jesus and the fact that Jesus is for all humankind.
SOCIAL OUTCASTS and those not born into promise are grafted into God’s story. The work of love that Christ performed to satisfy the penalty we as rebellious people deserved is enough for everyone. This news creates an urgency to appeal to all people with the same love that was given to us while we were far off from Christ. The Good News was meant to be carried to all people in every place in the world. Followers of Christ have been commissioned to do just this with our words and with our lives. Let us get out of our comfort zone and show people a God that lives in and through us!
What does the good news of Jesus’s resurrection mean to you? Will you make room in your heart for him to resurrect that which has felt dead? Thanks to Jesus, no area of your life needs to remain defeated.
