What is the Summary of the Gospel?
The Gospel is this: I, along with every human being except the Lord Jesus, the sinless Lamb of God, God the Son, the Second person of the Trinity, have broken God’s laws. Breaking God’s laws will be punished. The punishment is God’s wrath in a conscious eternity in hell with eternal torment, destruction, sorrow, etc. There is only one solution. God sent His Son, the Lord Jesus, born of a virgin, for a ministry of being the substitute for our sins (1 Corinthians 5:7). The Holy Spirit initiates salvation (John 16:8). The Holy Spirit opens the mind of the spiritually dead (Acts 16:14). After freeing our will by God’s sovereign power, He offers us to accept His Son as Savior or reject Him. If we reject, we will face God’s wrath. If we believe (faith in/trust in), we will be forgiven, justified, reconciled, and have our names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. Faith, believing, trust in God’s grace alone, through faith in Jesus Christ alone brings salvation. Faith is not a work (Romans 4:1-5). Everyone’s prayer is different. People are damned to hell, not by the wrong prayer but by their refusal to believe, trust in the Lord Jesus alone.