Talk

The Best and Worst News You’ve Ever Heard

Louie Giglio
February 12, 2023

Louie Giglio closes out the ‘Priorities’ talks with an exhortation. He reminds us that if we keep the Gospel as our first priority, we will stand on it for life, be rushed in the river of grace toward all God has for us, and relay the good news to those desperately in need of hope.

Key Takeaway

Embrace the Gospel as being of first priority and relay the best and worst news to those who are desperately in need of hope.

5 Implications //

1. You can never be good enough for God.

2. The Gospel is our foundation for life.

3. The same grace that saved you, sustains you.

4. God is not finished with any of us yet.

5. Our biggest priority is what we pass on to those around us.

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"The Gospel isn't "Christ died." It's WHY Christ died." "The same grace that gets you to heaven is the same grace that gets you through the week." "Make the gospel a priority and you will be released from the grip of religion." "I didn't give you the 10 things [commandments] so I would know you can't do the 10 things, I gave you the 10 things so that YOU would know you can't do the 10 things."
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Discussion Questions

  1. Louie began his talk mentioning the culture in 1st Century Greece. He said something about how the people of the day valued spirit but not body. Retell this fact and its cultural implications. Can you remember this from history class?
  2. How is the first implication both good AND bad news?
  3. What does it mean to “stop trying” to be good enough for God? What changes when we go from trying to not trying, our actions? Motives? Beliefs?
  4. How is the Gospel something a person “stands on”? What does it typically take for someone to go from seeing the Gospel as something you make a decision about once to being something you “stand on”?
  5. How do you answer the question, “How do you know that you are saved?”?
  6. What do verses 10+11 mean? What is the purpose of ‘grace’ after getting saved? This may be tricky so be encouraged to wrestle with this together.
  7. Why does the Gospel “release you from the grip of religion”?
  8. What popular thinking habits do we let go of because of our priorities?
  9. Who are the lost people you are praying for? How can you take a step toward sharing with them?
  10. Louie says there are 100 ways to pass on the message of the Gospel. What ways have you “passed on the message” before?

Scripture References

1Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand.
2By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
3For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
5and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve.
6After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep.
7Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles,
8and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.
9For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
11Whether, then, it is I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.
21God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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.