Episode 1 -

Most Christians are taught to start with a simple question: How am I forgiven?

And while forgiveness is central to the New Testament, starting there may already assume something deeper—something we rarely stop to examine.

In this episode, we step back and ask a more fundamental question: What is the gospel?

In the ancient world, a “gospel” wasn’t a formula or a method. It was an announcement—news that a king had come, that a victory had been won. When the early Christians proclaimed “Jesus is Lord,” they weren’t offering a private religious belief, but making a direct challenge to a world that already had its own “gospel” and its own lord.

From there, the discussion turns to a deeper issue: not just what we’ve done, but what we are.

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