The Gospel for Dummies

The information/computer age has provided a superabundance of facts. The "knowledge pie" has expanded exponentially. We can't possibly know it all, so we are left to master smaller and smaller slices of the pie. If we continue to know more and more about less and less, then it's only a matter of time before we know everything about absolutely nothing.

Years of intellectualism, commentary, denominational division and righteous crusading have tempted us to stray from the simplicity of the Gospel. Our pride has flirted with our advance in knowledge and we are predisposed to making things harder than they actually are.

Let's remember that Jesus made things simple.

But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, 'Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?'
Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”" Matthew 22:34-40

Love God. Love people.

There are God-backed, time-tested, complex and simple wisdom-ful principles, commands and truths in the Word to guide us. These can't be ignored or minimized. His Word has given us life and is our delight (Psalm 119:50,77+). But when it comes right down to it, stick with the basics and you can't go wrong.

Paul spoke to this in 1 Corinthians 13, "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal" (v. 1).

Let's make sure all of our revelation isn't just a bunch of noise.

Let Him use your love for His purposes.