Hello my friend~

Perhaps it isn't really the best thing to center our lives around the gospel.

Maybe that thinking can be challenged just a bit.

Maybe it will help bring some greater clarity into our lives. And not just clarity, but a greater sense of purpose.

On that note, here is the first part of today's Here's the Joy post:

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“So what do you mean by gospel?”

My friend was taken aback by my question. She had just been talking about the importance of living a gospel-centered life, based on the transforming power of the gospel.

But I had been feeling some concern that gospel has become a buzzword in the church, and may be in danger of losing its meaning, which is beautiful, and take on a meaning it was never intended to have.

Am I really supposed to be living a gospel-centered life? Does the gospel really have transforming power?

Read the rest here.