Episode notes
In Part 1 of The Heart of the Gospel, we looked at two foundational truths: God is love, and God is sovereign.
But what does that love actually look like?
In Part 2, we turn to Jesus—the one who makes the invisible God known. If seeing Jesus is seeing the Father, then the life of Jesus shows us what God's love looks like when it takes on flesh and enters the world.
And what Jesus reveals is radically different from the way of the world.
We look at Jesus' love for enemies, His willingness to serve rather than be served, His embrace of sinners and outsiders, and ultimately His response to the very people who crucified Him: "Father, forgive them."
Along the way, we also talk about prayer, learning to live from God's love rather than trying to earn His approval, the freedom of surrendering the identities we construct for ourselves, and what it might mean to truly believe that God's love can heal the human heart—and the world.
The Heart of the Gospel will conclude in Part 3 as we look at Jesus' invitation not simply to admire this love, but to follow Him into it—to actually live it.