This 12-session Bible study is about recovering what is lost and broken—our relationship with Jesus—because the gospel is the remedy to fix all things: every struggle, every circumstance, every relationship, everything. This study explains the implications of the gospel with surprising clarity and striking candour.
Sessions include:
1-The Reality: Everything Is Broken (33:35)
uthor and pastor Matt Chandler explains how sin entered God’s perfect creation and introduced chaos. As a result, we often seek to fix things by running to ourselves, others, the world, and religion. But only the good news of the gospel can set things right.
2-The Remedy: Our Hope in the Gospel (28:14)
Because of the fall, people have a basic heart problem that expresses itself in sin. Human efforts at dealing with symptoms can never heal the root issue. Matt shows how only the power and grace found in the gospel can make us clean
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3-The Response: Faith & Repentance (32:00)
Matt states that the fruit of faith is repentance. He describes worldly grief as a destructive response to sin, leading to death. In contrast, godly grief leads to repentance, salvation, and a life without regret.
4-The Result: Justification & Adoption (28:57)
When we embrace salvation in Jesus Christ, God bangs the gavel and declares us innocent. Matt points out that the moment we’re justified, we’re also adopted. We don’t just have a righteous Judge; we also have a loving Father who delights in us. The Holy Spirit testifies to our spirit that we are children of God.
5-Growing in Holiness: Sanctification (33:00)
Sanctification requires grace-driven effort. To grow in holiness, we pursue the Lord by setting our minds on things above, getting our minds off things below, and letting Him renew our minds.
6-Knowing Our Brokenness: Free from Shame (32:00)
Matt explores the ways guilt and shame interact in our lives. When we accept that justification takes care of our guilt and adoption takes care of our shame, we’re free to let God replace false self-ideals with what’s true, right, and good.
7-Trusting God’s Goodness: Free from Fear (29:00)
When sin entered the world, all that was peace and prosperity became death and decay, fear and anxiety. When we’re reconciled with God, we get God Himself. We can trust Him to rule and reign in our lives for our good.
8-Continuing Healthy Cycles: The New Self (29:00)
Matt explains that when we were dead in our sins, we were objects of God’s wrath. Now that we’ve been made alive in Christ, the roots of our sin are constantly being pulled up. We renounce our former ways as God reroots us in our new nature, giving us victory over sin and allowing us to bring glory to Him.
9-Experiencing Grace: Love & Confession (32:00)
The love of God, made manifest for us in Christ, motivates us in how to live our lives. Highlighting the need to seek reconciliation in our relationships, Matt offers guidelines for confessing our sins to God and others.
10-Making Peace: Confronting Sin (30:00)
Matt warns that bitterness grows in our hearts when we can no longer absorb or overlook an offence. But bitterness is uprooted when we take steps toward reconciliation. The more we’re willing to love one another, admit our sin, and seek reconciliation, the more robust and deep the community of faith becomes.
11-Pursuing Joy: The Abundant Life (33:00)
Meaningful life is found in being connected to the Son of God. When we walk into sin, we’re believing the promise that sin offers. Unlike the promises of our flesh, however, God is able to accomplish and fulfill the promises He makes to His children.
12-Sharing Hope: Light of the World (32:00)
Matt declares that the light of the gospel is the only source of true hope. Freedom from darkness comes to those who know they’ve rebelled against God, are heartbroken in their sin, and have cried out to the Father in spiritual bankruptcy. And God commands us to spread this life-changing message as a people marked by love, compassion, patience, mercy, and hospitality.