The gospel is not just the answer to your internal sins, struggles, and idols. It is also the answer to your failure to love others, engage the culture, and live missionally. If the gospel is renewing you internally, it will also be propelling you externally.

God’s grace is the driving force of all change. God’s grace has both an inward and an outward movement that mirror each other.

Internally, the grace of God moves me to see my sin, grow in awareness of God’s holiness, respond in repentance and belief, and then begin to be transformed into the image of Jesus.

Externally, the grace of God moves me to see the depravity of mankind, awareness of God’s mission, begin dying to self, and taking up a cross and following Jesus as a sent one.

The diagram below helps to illustrate this.