Good News
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Have you heard the good news?
At Life Church we have something important to tell you:
God loves you!
This simple statement is the key to all of Christianity. In fact the word "gospel" which occurs so frequently in the Bible really means "good news".
Many people say "I love you", without really meaning it. Perhaps you've met some of them. Their words soon turns out to be empty. God is different - when he says "I love you" he backs it up!
We want you to be able to receive God's love for you and share it with others. To help you do that we want to begin with four life principles:
Four Life Principles
If you want to understand what it means for God to love you and why this is important, you need to see God's love for you in the context of four "life principles":
- God exists.
- God loves you and wants to have a relationship with you.
- A relationship with God has to be on his terms.
- God's terms are: follow Jesus.
Just four principles! Were you expecting something more complicated? If so, you need to know that God actually wants to make it as simple as possible for you to connect to and receive his love. Before you read any further take a few minutes to think about this.
As you might expect, these principles are actually derived from the Bible and the best way to understand them is to see them illustrated as we let the Bible "speak for itself". Towards that end we have selected key passages that correspond to each principle. Let's start with the first one.