All the Gospel requires is faith & repentance… what it produces is the desire to obey the Lord.
In his book, The Silver Chair, C.S. Lewis once wrote. "You can make a very good decision to take a road you know nothing about, but if you are in the middle of the road, you are in a different place from where you were before." Not all roads lead to the same destination. In the 90s, while on a missions trip, Mike and I took a midnight stroll through Belfast, Northern Ireland. Unaware of the danger we were in, we wandered along a road that marked the divide between Catholic and Protestant communities, having let common sense slip away. It wasn’t until a young boy approached us asking, "Which side of the church you on?", that we realized our perilous situation.
“But the path to the Celestial City is not so easily found as the path to the City of Destruction.” Pilgrims Progress, John Bunyan
The Gospel path.
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The Gospel is that God loves you, which leads to your love for Him which results in living a good life. It is not about you giving your life to God and promising to live a good life to earn His love.
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All the Gospel requires is faith & repentance. Obedience, to God’s Word, is the fruit of faith and repentance.
The Gospel, or "good news," is the message that begins with God.
The Apostle Paul warns the Galatians in 1:8-9, and in so doing warns us, about those who ‘distort’ the Gospel. The word distort denotes a reversing of the Gospel, a putting ‘out of order’ and those that do so be accursed. The weight of the Gospel is imperative. There are things that Christians can differ on, but the Gospel is not one of them. If the Gospel is not embraced, understood and applied properly, it becomes something else. God is holy, perfect and eternal and mankind is not. In a sinful disposition, mankind stands in the path of the wrath of a holy God.
The good news is that God made a way through Jesus His only Son for man to dwell in His perfect presence. Through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, humanity can be redeemed, reconciled with God, and granted eternal life. God created humanity to live in relationship with Him, but sin broke this relationship and brought death. Jesus, God's Son, came to earth, lived a sinless life, died on the cross as a substitute for our sins, and rose from the dead, offering forgiveness and eternal life. By placing faith in Jesus and repenting of our sins, we are reconciled to God and receive the gift of salvation.
With varied motives, some have distorted the gospel to, "Jesus loves you and has a plan for your life," this is not the gospel. While it is true that Jesus loves you, the Gospel also requires acknowledging and confessing one's sins and recognizing the need for Christ as Savior. True repentance involves both turning away from sin and turning to Christ in newness of life. Salvation encompasses a dynamic process in the life of a believer: Christians are saved, are being saved, and will be saved. The following Scriptures outline the complete “Gospel, a “Romans Road" of salvation, which guides us through this transformative journey.
The “Romans Road” is a series of Scripture verses from the letter to the Romans explaining the way of salvation. 
SINS
For fall have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
WAGES
For the wages of sin is death...
SEEK
None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands no one seeks for God. 
ALL
All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.
BUT
...but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.CONFESS
Romans 10.9
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 
FAITH
Romans 5:1
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
SAVES
"For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
IN
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 
CHRIST
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. "We are to walk in the right way. But the right way is a narrow path, and it is only by following it with steady and unflinching steps that we can reach the end. The Lord Jesus is the way; let us follow Him with confidence and zeal." C.H. Spugeon
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