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Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Gospel Fluency Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life By Jeff Vanderstelt Good News PublishersCopyright © 2017 Jeff Vanderstelt All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-4335-4603-7 Contents Foreword by Jackie Hill Perry, Acknowledgments, Part 1: Gospel Fluency, 1 Everyone Is an Unbeliever, 2 Give Them Jesus, 3 Fluency, Part 2: The Gospel, 4 The True Story, 5 Power for Salvation, 6 What's Faith Got to Do with It?, Part 3: The Gospel in Me, 7 Good News to Me, 8 The War of the Mind, 9 Fruit to Root, Part 4: The Gospel with Us, 10 Eating to Remember, 11 He's the Better ..., 12 The Hero of Our Story, Part 5: The Gospel to Others, 13 Listen and Learn, 14 Show and Tell, 15 Grow in Love and Wisdom, Conclusion, General Index, Scripture Index, CHAPTER 1 Everyone Is an Unbeliever I'm an unbeliever. So are you. "Wait," you're thinking. "What are you doing writing a book about the gospel of Jesus Christ if you're an unbeliever? And what do you know about me? Who do you think I am?" I grew up believing that people fall into two categories: you are either a believer or an unbeliever; you either believe in Jesus Christ and what he has done for us or you don't. Now, after more than twenty-five years as a pastor, I see that every one of us is an unbeliever, including me — at least in some areas of our lives. Don't misunderstand me. I do believe there are some who are regenerate children of God and others who are not yet. There are those who have been given new life through faith in Jesus. They have become new creations and have been given fresh starts because of their faith in Jesus Christ and what he has done for them. And I believe there are others who are still dead in their sins and not yet truly alive in Christ (see John 1:12–13; 2 Cor. 5:17; Eph. 2:1–10). When I say we are all unbelievers, I mean we still have places in our lives where we don't believe God. There are spaces where we don't trust his word and don't believe that what he accomplished in Jesus Christ is enough to deal with our past or what we are facing in this moment or the next. We don't believe his word is true or his work is sufficient. We don't believe. We are unbelievers. I struggle with unbelief on a daily basis. I have a conversation with my wife, and when she points out something I've yet to get better at, I hear the word failure in my head. I try to lead a good conversation about the Bible at the dinner table with my children, but instead of eager beavers on the edges of their seats, I get slouched bodies and rolling eyes. Bad father. I teach on being a good neighbor, one who knows the stories of the people who live on your street, but since I moved into my current neighborhood a few months ago, I know only the story of failed attempts to meet people. Hypocrite. Unbelief. I slip in and out of believing God's word about me and trusting in his work for me. Jesus gave his life to make me a new creation. He died to forgive me of my sins and change my identity from sinner to saint, from failure to faithful, and from bad to good and even righteous and holy. But I forget what he has said about me. I forget what he has done for me. And sometimes it isn't forgetfulness. Sometimes it's just plain unbelief. I know these things. I just don't believe them. I am an unbeliever. Not every moment, of course. But I have those moments. So do you. I'm certain of it. We all struggle with unbelief in God because the message of who he is and what he has done for us can sound unbelievable at times. We all slip in and out of confidence that what he has done for us in Jesus is sufficient for us today. It's very possible that even though you are familiar with Jesus, you have yet to believe in him for yourself, for your life. Or maybe you have come to faith in Jesus, but it hasn't really changed what you do daily or how you engage in the everyday stuff of life. The apostle Paul said to the believers in Jesus in Galati
