Good News! What is at the heart of the gospel message? This question was recently asked by an online friend. My first thought was John 3:16. It’s a verse many of us learned as children, one we often take for granted. We hear it and we recite the words but seldom really think about it. Yet Luther referred to that very passage as “the Gospel in miniature”. A few years back I heard a decomposition of that verse. I thought it was a helpful way to give meaning to something we often just recite by rote. I’m not sure of its origin and I think there are a few variations but here the one I’m familiar with: For : Because God : The greatest lover So loved : The greatest degree The world : The greatest company That He gave : The greatest act His only begotten Son : The greatest gift That whosoever : The greatest opportunity Believeth : The greatest simplicity In Him : The grea...
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