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The primary purpose of Rooted Pursuit is to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. While some of our content focuses on spiritual growth, we understand that it may not always fully convey the depth of the Gospel. Below is a clear and detailed explanation of the Gospel to fill in any gaps. If you sense God calling you into a relationship with Him, we invite you to read on. You will never regret building your life on Jesus.
The Gospel, or Good News, is the culmination of God's deep love for us. It is the message that Christ lived, died, and rose again, offering us forgiveness and the payment for our sins. Through His sacrifice, we are rescued from hell and invited into a direct, eternal relationship with God, both on earth and in heaven. The Gospel is a free gift that we could never earn on our own.
A person is saved when they receive the Gospel of Jesus Christ in their heart. To truly embrace this gift, one must first recognize their need for it—acknowledging that all have sinned and fall short of God's glory. This recognition leads to repentance—a turning away from sin—and a turning toward Jesus. The person must understand that this gift cannot be earned through their own efforts but is only made possible by God’s grace, demonstrated through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. By faith, they accept Jesus’ sacrifice as payment for their sins, surrender their life to God, and, with His help, commit to following Him.
This process can be summed up in three steps: Repent, Accept, and Follow. We cannot repent, accept Christ, or follow Him without God’s help. We offer God a willing heart, and He works the miracle of salvation, giving us the Holy Spirit to empower us to live for Him. From that moment on, a person is saved.
The ongoing work of conviction, guidance, and spiritual growth in a Christian’s life is called sanctification. This process is carried out by the Holy Spirit, and, once again, we cannot achieve it on our own. Just as we initially surrendered our lives to God when we began our relationship with Him, we now surrender different aspects of our lives as the Holy Spirit prompts us.
Sanctification does not determine our salvation—that was settled the moment we repented and accepted Christ. Rather, it is a lifelong journey of becoming more like Christ, with the Holy Spirit actively working in us each day. While challenges will arise, we can be confident that God is with us through every season of life.
Two essential aspects of following Christ after accepting Him are Baptism and sharing our faith. Baptism is an outward sign of the inward grace we have received. It’s the moment when we publicly declare our faith in Christ. Being immersed in water symbolizes our identification with Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. It marks the beginning of our new life in Christ and the moment we receive the Holy Spirit in a special way. The New Testament is covered with Jesus and early church fathers commanding that believers be baptized. While some like the thief on the cross did not get this opportunity, every able body Christian should follow their decision with baptism.
We also share our faith because we want others to experience the same transformation. As our hearts are changed by God’s love, we desire for others to be saved and transformed as well—through a relationship with Jesus. God’s love compels us to spread the Good News, so that others can encounter the hope and freedom we have found in Him. As we spread God’s word we are also called to care for the needs of His people. The task of caring for others and spreading the Gospel becomes more and more natural to us as our love grows deeper for Jesus. Following Jesus on your own can be a burden, but following Jesus while growing in relationship with Him can be pure joy no matter the circumstances.
Dear God, I admit and know that I am a sinner. My sin has separated me from You. I turn from my sin, and I am running to You. Thank you that Jesus Christ died in my place. Jesus, I ask you to forgive me of my sin and for you to come into my life as my Lord and Savior. I believe that You lived, died, and rose again. I believe that you are alive today and I ask you to begin to direct my life. Thank you for giving me eternal life. In Jesus’ name, Amen!
Psalm 139:13-16 NIV
13For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Isaiah 41:13 NIV13 For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.
John 3:16 NIV
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Romans 5:8 NIV
8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
James 4:17 NIV
17 If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
1 John 3:4 NIV
4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.
Romans 3:23 NIV
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
1 John 1:8 NIV
8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
Romans 6:23 NIV
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Isaiah 59:2 NIV
2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
John 14:6 NIV
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 3:36 NIV
36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.
2 Corinthians 5:21 NIV
21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
1 Peter 3:8 NIV
18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.
Hebrews 10:10 NIV
10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Luke 13:3 NIV
3 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
2 Corinthians 7:10 NIV
10 Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
Romans 10:9 NIV
9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
John 1:12 NIV
12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—
Romans 3:25 NIV
25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith.
Luke 5:27-28 NIV
27 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, 28 and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.
Romans 15:5-6 NIV
5 May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had, 6 so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Galatians 5:24 NIV
24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Matthew 25:34-36 NIV
34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
Matthew 11:28-30 NIV
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
John 3:30 NIV
30 He must become greater; I must become less.”
Romans 8 NIV
1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Acts 2:38 NIV
38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 28:19 NIV
9 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Romans 10:14 NIV
14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?
Mark 16:15 NIV
15 He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation
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