Tucson Christian Church Reform Calvinist Gospel

The Gospel is God's promise to save his people, conditioned exclusively on the atoning blood and imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ, totally apart from the sinner's works and efforts.

The Gospel is not merely the fact that Jesus lived, died, and rose again, considered apart from the purpose of these truths. It is in the Gospel that the Righteousness of God is revealed.

The Gospel is the “Good News” of what God has done for his people through Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 15

1 Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2 By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Peter,and then to the Twelve. 6 After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8 and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.

Now, the contents of the promise, according to Scripture, is Christ and all His riches of salvation and blessing. For, it is the promise that God will raise up a Savior out of the seed of David; that this Seed of David shall bear the sins of His people, that God shall raise Him from the dead and give Him glory, exalt Him on the throne of His father David and give Him the ends of the earth for His possession. He is the promised Seed.

And the gospel declares: (1) That God objectively realized all the fullness of His salvation in and through Christ Jesus, His humiliation and exaltation; (2) That God subjectivity realizes and applies all the blessings of salvation through the Spirit of promise; (3) That He realizes this work of salvation to whomsoever He will, that is, His people, the elect, they that believe in Christ, the humble and broken-hearted, the weary and heavy laden, all they that mourn in Zion.

Romans 1

16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.

17 For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."