What is the Gospel? It is the Good News. And right now, in the midst if this pandemic we all could use the Good News.

The Gospel is a powerful tool, an experience with a remarkable capacity to change lives.

-John 4: 5-26-
This Scripture recounts the story of Jesus meeting a Samaritan woman at a well, an outcast and a woman who was a Gentile and had no social standing.

From this story, we get several important things:

1. The Gospel is for everyone: The woman in this story was an outcast. She may have come at the hottest time to avoid meeting the judgmental stares of people. Jesus broke all barriers to speak with this woman. The Gospel is for all of us, not just the unbeliever. Jesus lived the Gospel and we are called to the same thing. We all need to Gospel.

2. The Gospel is powerful: the living water started springing out of the woman when she met Jesus and went to tell others of Jesus. She went to the well embarrassed, ashamed and not respected. Meeting the Gospel through Jesus changed all of that. Will power, determination and emotions are not enough to change us. They need to be met with the wisdom of the Word of God, the power of the Gospel. The Gospel changes our desires.

3. The Gospel meets your deepest needs: the woman had low self-esteem and tried to meet her needs through her relationship with a man. The Gospel alone meets the deepest needs of our innermost being if we accept and allow God to meet those needs. When we don’t, we transfer that need for fulfillment to other places, material things and people. Only Jesus can meet that deepest needs of our hearts.

We all need the Gospel. No one is unqualified. Everyone is worthy to receive and accept the Gospel.