Message of the Apostolic: Apostolic Gospel

Several years ago while living in a closed foreign nation for a few months, I came across many people who had never heard anything about Jesus Christ. They had never heard of the Bible. They had never heard of sin, and they had never heard of Adam and Eve. They did not even know about the need for a Savior.

Growing up in a western culture, this came as a shock to me. These people had no background knowledge of the message I was carrying. Suddenly, I came face-to-face with my inadequacy at being able to properly deliver the message of the gospel from beginning to end.

This began a journey and a passion of mine to preach the Gospel from Genesis to Revelation. In Genesis 3:15, God gave the first promise of the Messiah—the Seed that would crush the head of the serpent, and the serpent who would bite His heel. This promise is known as the proto evangelium or “first gospel” in Latin. From that point on, the message of redemption and the promise of the Messiah has unfolded through scripture—and continues to unfold even today.

As I began to walk these pre-believers through the story of redemption, I began to fall in love with the Big Picture of God’s unfolding story. I spoke of Isaiah and his message of the Suffering Servant (Is. 53). I spoke of David and his messianic promise of the one who would be crushed (Ps. 22). I spoke of the Messenger who would come and turn hearts of fathers and children (Malachi 4).

Then, I spoke of John the Baptist and Jesus, of the Gospels and the Apostles…of the Epistles and the Promises of the Second Coming in Revelation…As I began to tell the whole story from beginning to end, I was getting a vision for eternity and beginning to see our little part in the Big Picture.

I began to realize that the Story of Jesus is much bigger than us, and the true Apostolic Gospel is to tell the whole story from beginning to end—calling people to step into the big picture and take their little part. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is Good News. It is Good News from Beginning to End, and the whole world needs to know about it!