The Gospel from first to last...

Ok so last night at BUECU (Birmingham University Evangelical Christian Union) was soooo encouraging. The have a focus week coming up and as I have never really been part of a big one of those I am massively excited. This excitement only increased with the talk from Acts 10 by a guy called Gary. What a truely awesome encouragement he brought. He reminded me how the gospel is key to our everyday lives as Christians. The gospel is what saves and changes our lives everyday. Its not like one day we hear the gospel, become Christians and then forget it again; its what sustains us as Christians each and every day! It was so great to be reminded that we need to remember what true grace is all about and how that should be working out in our lives every day and how we should be gaining a deeper knowledge and understanding of what the gospel is truely about.
As I look back on the last 5 months of Relay I realise it is that which has changed and moulded me. Ok so I have read and learnt so much about God but ultimately it is Jesus and his gospel of amazing grace that saves me and gives me the honour and privilege to serve him in the way that I do. It is the gospel that leads me to him each and every day. How can we forget the gospel when it is what begins and sustains us in our faith??
I guess I take away another challenge and that is to remember that power that resides in the gospel is the same all over this world and that each and every person, no matter what their people group or culture, needs to hear and accept that gospel! What a challenge for not only "Focus Week" but life! Each and every day of it! Am I willing to go to the ends of the earth so that people can experience the power of the gospel for themselves? Am I willing to be God's true disciple? Thats the real question right.

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed - a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."" Romans 1:16-17