You won!
You don’t have cancer!
Your investment doubled!
The weird thing about good news is that it generally requires some kind of context. Won what? Were you worried I had cancer? What investment? How much?
God loves you. God forgives you. God wants to transform you and this world.
Did God ever not want to do any of those things?
I just read a 6 page paper explaining the good news of the Bible. On one hand something seems really weird if it takes 6 pages to explain what some would claim is the best news ever. On the other hand, maybe the paper is trying to explain context.
But, what’s weird is that when this best news ever was originally shared it was religious people who already believed God loved them who were offended and it was non-religious people who… well… had other issues… that jumped for joy over it.
Why is the good news today generally the news that all the religuos people feel great about and all the non-religous people “have to be convinced of”?
Have we lost the context? Or have we lost the good news?
