What We've Seen

But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard."- Acts 4:19-20

Has the Gospel stopped being about what we have seen and heard? Is the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus the whole Gospel? Certainly it is the most important part, you won't hear any argument against that from me, but what about the things we have seen? What about the transformation that I, and you have personally experienced here in the 21st century?

I will be honest, there are times when I feel that the Gospel (at least the one I've been told to preach since I was a kid) fails to connect to people two thousand years later. Maybe it's just me, but I don't think I spend enough time thinking about how the Gospel has altered my life, and perhaps this is the part of the Gospel I need to start with.

Don't get me wrong, the crux of the Gospel is Christ's work a couple millennia ago, but it is not as if his work stopped there. The cross made all future transformation, reconciliation, redemption, and propitiation possible, that's the important part, but I don't think it's the only part. So I think I'm going to go share what I've actually seen for myself, and what I've actually heard for myself.