Mark 3: A Healthy Church Member is Gospel Saturated
23. Oct, 2008 
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This mark sounds very churchy but it’s also critical. “The greatest need in the world today is the gospel. It is the greatest need of the world because men, women, and children are perishing without a vital knowledge of God through the good news of our Savior and his Son, Jesus.”
Totally agree and with the fact that its also the church’s greatest need and that we need to be saturated in it. And how do we do that?
1. Know The Gospel
2. Desire to Hear the Gospel and Preach the Gospel to Yourself
3. Take the Gospel to its Conclusion
4. Order Your Life Around the Gospel
5. Share the Gospel with Others
6. Guard the Gospel
There so many good points in this chapter it’s tough to summarize without restating the whole chapter. I particularly find it helpful when he states under “Order Your Life Around the Gospel,” that “our aim is to understand the gospel so deeply, so intimately, that it animates every area of our lives.” To me that pretty much sums the rest up.
Unfortunately there’s much man in gospels that we preach and order our lives around, but when get a more biblical understanding it changes us from the inside out and then the church. The hard part is keeping it central and rooted in all that we are and in all that we do. In our sin, we so want to make it about us.
I would add one other idea, which is addressed later in the book, in our gospel saturation we need the ability to communicate the gospel truth, pun intended, in a way that’s understandable to unchurched people. Which goes under “share the gospel with others,” but don’t get tunnel vision in communicating it just one way or through some track or program you learned. The gospel must have a context or its simply feeds our self-righteousness, we feel holy for sharing something no one understands, which isn’t the point. It’s ok if people are offended by the gospel but too often we offend them in our method before the gospel
REVIEW OF MARK 1, CONDENSED FROM THE BOOK:
