Gospel is the Beginning...and the Process...and the End

Too many think the gospel is "just" the starting point, that which leads to salvation, and then we set out to live the life without thinking of the gospel.


Yet the Word says, "As you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him." How did we "receive"? Repentance and faith...and thereby are we to walk.


Tim Chester puts it this way:

"We become Christians through faith and repentance, and we grow as Christians through continual faith and repentance. We don't graduate from the gospel to some advanced way of holiness or progress. Martin Luther said, 'To progress is always to begin again.'"