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What Does It Mean To Live as a Christian?

Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio

Proclaim Good News

Day 6

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We continue our learning on how we live as Christians. Today, in day six, Louie Giglio takes us on a deep dive into what the Gospel even is, starting with the Greek and Latin. We will see that in those words, we have the definitions of exactly what the good news is and how we can share it.

You will be encouraged to learn about very specific and practical ways you can partner with Jesus to share the Gospel with anyone around you.

Summary

As redeemed people living Christian lives, we have been tasked with the greatest opportunity of all time: Proclaim the Good News. We don't go around telling people bad news, we're to speak the words of the Gospel. Romans 1:16 says that we are not ashamed of the Gospel. The word "Gospel" in Greek is "euangelion" which means "good news". This is also where we get the word "evangel" in Latin, leading to our word evangelical. Mark 16:15 and Matthew 24:14 tell us to preach the good news.

Preaching isn't a profession, it's simply to tell, proclaim, share, and spread. Everyone can do it. We are the good news bearers. We have to get back to the heart of God's Word, where we can put the gospel into our hearts. He wants us to live as Christians and proclaim to Gospel, the good news.

Our culture wants to get rid of all the bad news, so they want us to think God loves us because we're so amazing. The truth, we are amazing because we are made in the image of God, but humanity has a problem, so we all have a problem. We do terrible things to ourselves and others. The problem with humanity causes humans to fight Yahweh- but God loves humans because they are made in His image. So, He solves humanity's problem by making our problem His Son's problem so that our problem was solved through His Son so that we could be called sons and daughters of God. This is good news!

What's next?

We, all who have entrusted our lives to Jesus, have been given the Great Commission. We are to preach the Gospel, the good news, to everyone so that all may hear it. Louie put together a series of events that are typical of how we can interact with those we want to share the good news with. We have already learned what a game-changer generosity is in showing the love of God and allowing us to shine for His glory. Reflect on the next few questions and decide where you can step into the story in a greater way.

  1. Would you tell everyone the good news?
  2. Would you be generous with your life because you know that generosity invites curiosity?
  3. Would you speak words of truth when people ask curious questions?
  4. Can you be prepared, be ready? Have a book, clip, a link to give to them.
  5. Remember, it's a process. Leave the results to God. Repeat.

Scripture References

20I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
14For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.
15And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
42
“Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”
27He answered, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
11For the
Lord
God is a sun and shield;

the

Lord
bestows favor and honor;

no good thing does he withhold

from those whose walk is blameless.

14The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
14
“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.
15
Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.
16
In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
12Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling,
13for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.
14Do everything without grumbling or arguing,
15so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky
16as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.
6For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.
9“How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.
16For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
15
He said to them,
“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
14
And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
18Then Jesus came to them and said,
“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
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Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
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and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
34
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
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By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
8But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
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Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
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Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life
?
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“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.
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Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
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If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?
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So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
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For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
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But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
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Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute.