How the Gospel Changes Lives (Message Determines Method)

We saw last week, the fundamental MESSAGE of the Christian faith was clarified. That message is LOVE – God loves us, sees us guilty and alienated from Him and out of LOVE He does something! He steps INTO our situation. In Jesus Christ, God lives the life I failed to live and dies the death I deserved to die…OUT OF LOVE. And He gives a new right standing; He gives forgiveness and new life to whoever is desperate enough to TRUST Him. That’s the fundamental truth of the Christian Church.

Today we see that clarified message (fundamental) translated into METHOD: last week the message and this week the METHOD. Let’s look at the Church’s Method:

1. Extremely Considerate
2. Rigidly Flexible
3. Universally Applicable