Walnut Street Baptist Church

We believe that Jesus changes everything. The person that He is and the work that He did saves us from everything. Jesus lived the life that Adam was created for, a perfect and pleasing life to God the Father, the creator of everything. We often refer to the person and work of Jesus as the Gospel. The Gospel of Jesus Christ, or it could be worded "the good news of Jesus Christ" is that:

The one and only God who is holy made us in His (God's) image to know him (God) (Gen. 1:26-28).
But we sinned and cut ourselves off from him (God) (Gen. 3; Rom. 3:23).
In his great love, God became a man in Jesus, lived a perfect life, and died on the cross, thus fulfilling the law himself and taking on himself the punishment for the sins of all those (you and me) who would ever turn from their sin and trust in him (God) (John 1:14; Heb. 7:26; Rom. 3:21-26, 5:12-21).
He (Jesus) rose again from the dead, showing that God accepted Jesus Christ’s sacrifice and that God’s wrath against us (all humans) had been exhausted (Acts 2:24, Rom. 4:25).
He (God) now calls us (everyone) to repent of our sins and trust in Jesus Christ alone for our forgiveness (Acts 17:30, John 1:12). If we repent of our sins and trust in Christ, we (You and I) are born again into a new life, an eternal life with God (John 3:16).
He (God) is gathering one new people to himself among all those who submit to Christ as Lord (Matt. 16:15-19; Eph. 2:11-19).