Why the Gospel?

We all know the great commission found at the end of Matthew in chapter 28 - the passage most people can recite in a cliche way during preaches and services! The passage calls us to the nations, to reach them with the Gospel... But why the Gospel?

Aren't Muslims, Jews Hindus and other religious groups all trying to win converts to their religions everyday as well? Why the Gospel and not Islam? Why the Gospel and not Hinduism?

Colossians 1:6... "...All over the world this Gospel is bearing fruit and growing." Aren't all the other religions of the world also growing? Yes they are... so what sets the Gospel apart?

The above scripture not only speaks of the Gospel growing but it speaks of it bearing fruit, this is what sets it apart - it is the only faith that produces true fruit in the lives of people! Fruit is a sign of birth, a sign of life, a sign of abundance!

The Gospel, unlike all other religions, invites us in to intimate relationship and fellowship with our creator God through the blood of Jesus, it is the bread of life that sustains eternally, it conforms us into the likeness of Jesus ( the perfect man ) as we are transformed from glory to glory - we are a people set apart and being made holy!

This is the fruit of the Gospel, it changes our lives - brings new birth, life and abundance! And here's the cool thing about fruit on a tree... its for others as well! The fruit God puts on your tree, in your life, is for others to recieve as you go to the nations because of the commission and annointing upon your life - so that others might freely recieve what we have recieved - the fruit of the Gospel!

big love... the bradlows