The Indispensable Gospel

In our ever changing world there is a trend in the blending of necessity and want. For instance there are people who complain about not having money and as soon as they get paid they by soda. Now there isn't much bad about soda (not much good either), but, when soda takes place of necessity it shows what kind of value we put on Dr. Pibbster.

A christian might think that he views the gospel as being indispensable and imperative. If he were to closely examine what he considers to be important by the use and thought of the thing, however, he might find that he has lowered the gospel within the secret vessel of his heart.

The Scriptures hold the gospel in the highest regards. There is, without a doubt, and imperativeness to the gospel. The very frame of the Bible rests; not on teaching or correct doctrine - nor is it on the practice and observance of ritual and ordinance, but it is on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

There are many reasons for this but perhaps the most meaningful to a lost human is sin. We cannot know the full destruction of sin. This we do know that; there is no more a damning and destructive thing than the evil that courses through our veins. The gospel is imperative because it is much needed.

The Gospel is also indispensable because it is the only way. There is no other way to God and redemption outside of the Gospel of Christ. Because our sin nature naturally draws us to setting up some idol or better way this fact is often overlooked. Even in modern evangelical teaching there is an idea that it is by some work of our own that we are redeemed. Some might say that we have set up an ideal of determination or human decision over the work of God.