9/21 Ignite-All Greek to Me: Euaggelion (Good News)

Devotion- Jared Graves

It’s important to note that the word for Gospel “euaggelion” isn’t used much in anything in the ancient text, except for the New Testament. Why?

Uses of the word “euaggelion” (per William Barclay)

• Summation of the entire Christian message. The word occurs 72 times in the NT and of these 72, 54 are in Paul’s letters.
• The “euaggelion”’ of God. It showed men a God whose heart was love & it was the Good News sent by God
• The “Euaggelion” of Jesus. Jesus brought it to men & Jesus ‘embodied’ it to men
• ‘My’ "euaggelion". It comes from God, through and in Jesus, but man must speak it to other people.
• The euaggelion is for all men.Jews believed that they were the favored nation of God, but we see that all peoples are favored by God and are meant to hear this message.

Closing

• I think last week and this week go hand in hand. We love people, and that is why we are meant to spread the greatest news ever, the “euaggelion” to the world. It is out of our love for people, and our love for God that we do this.

M&M Discussion

So we know what the premise of “euaggelion” is. We have heard the word “Gospel” or “Good news” our entire lives. But what truly does it mean?

Everyone get one of the slips of paper and a writing utensil. Write down what you think the “Gospel is”.

After they have written down their answers: As we go through these descriptions of what “euaggelion” is, see if your definition and your view of the Gospel matches up.

The euaggelion is, ‘the good news of truth"

• Read Galatians 2:5

The euaggelion is, ‘the good news of hope’

• Read Colossians 2:23
• John Buchan defined an atheist as “a man with no invisible means of support.’ When a man realizes what the good news means, he is filled with hope for himself and for the world.

The euaggelion is ‘the good news of peace’

• Read Ephesians 6:15

The euaggelion is ‘the good news of God’s promise’

• Read Ephesians 3:6
• William Barclay- “Jesus brought the good news which told not of the God of the threat, but the God of the promise”

The Euaggelion is, ‘the good news of immortality'

• Read 2 Timothy 1:10
• The good news is that death is not the end, but the beginning of life!

The euaggelion is, ‘good news of the risen Christ'

• Read 2 Timothy 2:8
• Barclay: “Our faith is not a faith in a figure in a book who lived and ddied, but in one who rose from death and who is alive forever more”

The euaggelion is ‘good news of salvation’

• Read Ephesians 1:13

Discuss their previous definitions and anything that they would change, or that they never thought of.

Together, come up with a definition of “Gospel”