Gospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life
Overview
Even if they want to, many Christians find it hard to talk to others about Jesus. Is it possible this difficulty is because we’re trying to speak a language we haven’t actually spent time practicing? To become fluent in a new language, you must immerse yourself in it until you actually start to think about life through it. Becoming fluent in the gospel happens the same way—after believing it, we have to intentionally rehearse it (to ourselves and to others) and immerse ourselves in its truths. Only then will we start to see how everything in our lives, from the mundane to the magnificent, is transformed by the hope of the gospel.
Top Highlights
“When I say we are all unbelievers, I mean we still have places in our lives where we don’t believe God. There are spaces where we don’t trust his word and don’t believe that what he accomplished in Jesus Christ is enough to deal with our past or what we are facing in this moment or the next.” (Page 20)
“Over the years, I have learned to ask four key questions in progressive order when forming people in the gospel: (1) Who is God? (2) What has God done (which reveals who God is)? (3) Who am I in light of God’s work? and (4) How should I live in light of who I am?” (Page 118)
“It is God’s intent that every person who comes into a relationship with him through Jesus Christ eventually will grow up into maturity. And maturity looks like Jesus. He is the perfect human, providing an example of what we are meant to be. A mature Christian is one who resembles Jesus Christ in thought, attitude, emotion, and behavior. And one of the most significant ways by which we grow up into maturity is by speaking the truth in love to one another.” (Page 28)
“It’s not a good night of Christian community if Christ isn’t present in our thoughts and conversations.” (Page 44)
“They become fluent through immersion in a gospel-speaking culture.” (Page 43)
- Title: Gospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life
- Author: Jeff Vanderstelt
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 2017
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christian life; Christian life › Biblical teaching
- ISBNs: 9781433546037, 9781433546068, 9781433546044, 9781433546051, 9781683662013, 1433546035, 143354606X, 1433546043, 1433546051, 1683662016
- Resource ID: LLS:GSPLFLNCYSTFFLF
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:24:46Z