I love Oswald Chambers' devotional "My Utmost for His Highest". I find I just keep reading it year after year because its depth always gives me new nuggets, or a different take on an old nugget. I think October 7th delivers the Gospel (Good News) in its most succinct form and I unashamedly plagiarize because I have never heard it better said:
"Sin is a fundamental relationship— it is not wrong doing, but wrong being— it is deliberate and determined independence from God. The Christian faith bases everything on the extreme, self-confident nature of sin. Other faiths deal with sins— the Bible alone deals with sin. The first thing Jesus Christ confronted in people was the heredity of sin, and it is because we have ignored this in our presentation of the gospel that the message of the gospel has lost its sting and its explosive power."
There is more, but you can read the full version for yourself here http://utmost.org/the-nature-of-reconciliation/
It totally diffuses the argument that you hear so often "I am a good person" because it's not about what you do wrong or what you do right. It's about the basic sin nature that is part of our DNA, and that can only be dealt with by the reconciliation that Christ provided.
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (2 Corinthians 5:21)
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