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In the film Roxanne, Steve Martin buys a newspaper from a vending machine and slowly walks away reading the front page. Suddenly he screams and runs back to the vending machine, hurriedly pushing the newspaper back inside. Relieved, he turns round and walks away.
How many times do we resolve not to listen to the news or read a newspaper again because we can never find really good news. It’s all bad—endless doom and gloom. Some days we want hope at our breakfast table not despair.
The old journalistic adage is that good news doesn’t sell. However, the best selling book of all time, the Bible, is about ‘Good News’. The word Gospel is an Anglo-Saxon translation of the original Greek word ‘evangelion’ which simply means ‘Good News’. The gospels in the Bible, the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, tell the good news of Jesus. Evangelists and evangelical churches specialise in telling the good news of Jesus.
So what is the good news found in the Bible and told by evangelists in evangelical churches everywhere. The good news is that we can have a new life, that we can be ‘born again’. We are all God’s children but we are in rebellion against Him. Disobedient children at war with our Father. But the good news is that He is prepared to forgive us.
The good news is a completely fresh start—the end to our rebellion and forgiveness from God. Of course there is a price, who paid it and how it was done is the good news in the gospels. Join us on a Sunday to find out more.
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