Gospel Fluency

Here is a really short pastoral letter for the week. I know that “Knowing God” is the book of the year for 2025. But if there was another book I wished all of COAH to read this year, it would be Gospel Fluency by Jeff Vanderstelt, published in 2017.

Often we stress the importance of the Gospel, but in our daily conversation and lives, we don’t really communicate or live out the gospel. 

Pete Greenwood in his review writes: 

“In Gospel Fluency, Vanderstelt argues that becoming a mature Christian requires the ability to “believe and speak the truths of the Gospel…in and into the everyday stuff of life.” (23) The Gospel is not something to be merely understood propositionally. For it to be truly transformational it must be applied—spoken—directly into life experience. His observation is that, even within the church, personal problems are often given solutions that have no gospel content, such as relationship issues being met simply with training in better communication. When this happens the ultimate heart problem will remain untouched unless people are told how Jesus is specifically a better answer to the problem.”  

Having read this book, I realize that I’m not as gospel fluent as I would like to be, so I will probably read it again this year. 

The good thing is that this wonderful book is free as an eBook, here is the link (https://pages.thegospelcoalition.org/gospel-fluency) from The Gospel Coalition. So, if you have time this summer, I encourage you to read and become more fluent in the Gospel. 

Blessings,  

Pastor Kyu