subject: 1st Christian Gospel Dynamic: Good Seed, And Good Roots Result In Good Fruit [print this page] People want to know how to change your lifePeople want to know how to change your life. The Christian gospel is the process of God that leads to total life transformation. It is the Bible in life that empowers us, and Paul says that gospel is what fulfills the word of God in us (Col 1:23-25). As The Gospel Coach, I am a life coach who uses the New Testament Bible in coaching. The Bible is like a series of life coach classes that can totally turn your life around for the better.
And it doesn't even take our DOING to get the job done. The gospel is the process, power and presence of God in us that causes us to live life better by accident than we ever could on purpose. The Christian gospel produces transformation of life. It is what enables us to transform life for the better. It contains the answers to many of our perplexing times in life, such as mid life crisis.
A gospel life coach uses the New Testament to produce these life changes because Paul says we should only minister the New Testament Bible (II Cor 3:6). When the gospel is lived, it greatly reduces our life problems, and the experience of the so-called midlife crisis. Overcoming problems is one of the fruits of the gospel - how to change your life for the better is part of its power.
The Christian Gospel Produces A Response In Us To God
"The Christian life is not my responsibility, but my response to his ability." This is a maxim most of us have heard many times. But it has become so familiar to us it is almost meaningless. As a Bible counselor, I have come to see that the 'seed' of what we allow into our minds and hearts produces the results in our lives, either good or bad. What we allow into us controls what we think, do and say. "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he."
In essence, this is the truth of 'The Vine and the Branch' (John 15:1-5). The branch must receive from the Vine, who is God, or it is worthless and dead. This is the basis of this first truth in gospel life transformation: What you receive is who you are (Prov 23:7).
Jesus says no good root produces bad fruit, - and also, no bad root produces good fruit (Matt 7:18, 12:35). Our concern is often the 'fruit' we produce in life - which many call good deeds. We should be more concerned with the SEED that comes into us. This is because the fruit grows automatically - depending on the seed sown.
This is the oldest truth in the entire Bible. Genesis 1 talks several times about 'things growing after their own kind.' This tells us, right up front, that if you plant apple seeds you won't raise pumpkins. Thus Paul says, "What you sow is what you will reap."
Can you see how the focus of Jesus, of Paul, and of Genesis 1, is all on the seed - not on the fruit? Paul talks about 10,000 instructors in Christ (I Cor 4:15). Their focus is mainly on the fruit - on what we DO. They are jokingly called 'fruit inspectors.' They hardly ever mention the seed. All they care about is the fruit of our lives - how good we live by their instruction, -- their preaching of 'RELIGIOUS DO-DO,' and what results we obtain. Jesus would say their focus is the outside of the cup, not the inside. Paul would classify this as 'dead works.'
What is important is the seed, not the fruit. The fruit grows automatically from the seed. These 40 day gospel dynamics begin here: the gospel process is totally natural.
If you receive only gospel seed, it transforms your entire life! The gospel is so easy to understand we need help to MIS-understand it!
