The Gospel is Simple!

The Gospel was, is, and always will be a simple message: Love.  And the Bible is essentially a story arc depicting mankind’s insecurities with that simplicity…and habitual over-complication of it…colliding with the continual counterbalance of the Father, Son, and Spirit to unveil just how effortless and disconnected from human effort it truly is.  



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