The 2020 Gospel Test
Jon Payne, Senior Pastor of Redemption Hill Church in Round Rock, TX recently posted this article which was then shared by Mickey Connolly on the Sovereign Grace Church Development blog.
2020 has provided a host of cultural and personal challenges. Churches face division over preferences and perspectives about the right way to live in a shaking culture. Political parties are simultaneously outraged and divided. The political, medical, and economic future of our country is uncertain, except in the perfect knowledge of our Lord.
Being gospel-centered means that whenever we address another topic, we discuss it in terms of its theological relationship to the gospel. We are determined to view our discussion of death, or race, or love, or politics, or economics, or government from a gospel centric perspective. In other words, we refuse to make these gospel implications the central point of our teaching, such that everything we teach begins to revolve around them. Everything is not centered around health, or love, or race, or politics, or generosity--all of those topics are centered around Christ.
Jon Payne is the senior pastor at Redemption Hill Church in Round Rock, TX. (This article originally appeared on his blog, To See The Glory.)