This is how we apply the gospel in our lives.
What is your idol?
What things do we make ultimate? What is it that gives us identity outside of God? Expose the false promises or lie of the idol.
What gospel truth speaks to that idol?
What does God have to say about that idol? What does the gospel say we have already received? How does God lift us up from these things?
What spiritual practices fights the idol?
What practical ways can we acknowledge the truth in the gospel? Spiritual disciplines or practices that make this truth real about us.
What is the fruit?
What is the change or transformation? What comes from the practices? What does the final destination look like?
Six steps to find your personal gospel story
1. Be honest about your idols (Emotions can be good indicators, both positive and negative)
2. Repent of the idol (identify and expose the false promise of the idol)
3. Repentance in faith (what do you need to believe about Jesus to reject this idol)
4. Ask the Holy Spirit to apply that gospel (illuminate and reveal God to us so that we can see and taste that God is good... )
5. Bring the means of grace to bear (spiritual practices and disciplines, accountability, and do it. )
6. Share your stories (give God the glory)
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