Paul seems obsessed with the movement of the gospel. His prayers are often laced with language calling for the rapid spread of the good news. For him, the importance of communicating the story of Jesus' death, burial and resurrection cannot be overstated. The gospel is everything, and the promotion of the message is most important.
As we learn to live as good Christians, how high on our priority list is sharing the good news? Are our lives representative of people whose greatest value is sharing the gospel?
We often become tangled up in Paul's moral teaching and miss his real passion-the gospel. While we cannot remove the need for appropriate Christian living, we must not internalize the good news to such an extent that it has no externality. The good news is not ours to own. It's only ours to share.
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