Three Gospels? or One?
“Christ Died for Our Sins” proclaimed the framed bronze artwork that hung in our home throughout my childhood and youth. It is a quote from Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians and sums up the version of the Christian gospel that dominated my induction into life and religion.
Lots of hymns carried the same message: “Mercy there was great, and grace was free. Pardon there was multiplied to me. There my burdened soul found liberty. At Calvary.”
Every person is a sinner by nature and choice. God demands death for sin, but Jesus was sent by God as savior of the world and died in our place. We receive this news by faith, experience a spiritual rebirth, and rejoice in the promise of forgiveness and life after death …
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