Chip presented a quick gospel picture in the New Members Class last week, based on Romans 6:23:  “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

See the crude picture.  We are on the left side of a great chasm, separated from God, the creator of the universe, by our sin.  What we deserve for our sin is death – not just physical death but spiritual eternal death.  There is nothing we can do on our own to cross this chasm.

But God offers a free gift of life everlasting. The life is made possible by the redeeming, sacrificial work of Jesus Christ on the cross.

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3.16). This is the Good News, the Gospel of Jesus Christ.