Reconciliation With God

The Bible teaches that we are by nature enemies of God. We demonstrate this enmity by repeatedly breaking His commandments, by ignoring Him, by distrusting Him, by making friends with the world, by loving money and worldly things, by exchanging the truth of God for a lie and worshipping and serving created things, etc. The gospel is the good news that rebels such as ourselves can have peace with God through Jesus Christ. The miracle of reconciliation is that God-hating rabble like ourselves are made to drop the rocks we have been throwing at Christ and turn to Him in love and submission. It is a mighty demonstration of power when an enemy is transformed into a friend.