The gospel is the “good news” because it contains the exceedingly wonderful
message of God’s redemption of sinful humanity through the death and
resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ. The gospel is the heart, the central core
of Christian preaching.
The English noun gospel comes from the Anglo-Saxon term godspell,
meaning “glad tidings.” It is translated from the Greek evangelion, which
means “good message.” Originally, the word was related to news of military
triumph. But when the New Testament was recorded, its writers assigned the
term gospel to the “good news” of salvation in Jesus Christ.
The gospel encompasses the entire communication of redemption and
salvation to humans as preached by Jesus Christ and His followers (Matthew
4:23; Romans 10:15). Later, the term gospel was also applied to the four
historical records of Jesus Christ’s life written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and
John. These four men are the original “evangelists,” or writers of the
evangelion.
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