Sinclair Ferguson Answers Questions

At the Ligonier Ministries Blog, Tim Challies has posted an interview with the author of In Christ Alone, the book I reviewed and recommended last week and quoted the week before.

Here’s how he answered the question “What does a Gospel-centered life look like?”

A “gospel-centered life” implies several things. First and foremost it implies that we trust in Christ as Savior and submit to him as Lord so that everything in our life is subordinate to Christ himself. This means also that we live as children of the Father and walk in the presence and power of the Spirit. So a “gospel centered life” is also a life that has been bent back from its natural condition to have its center in God the Trinity. But to live a gospel centered life we also need to learn the “grammar” of the gospel. I mean that we need to see that all the imperatives (commands, exhortations) we find in the New Testament are rooted in the indicatives of God’s grace. So we see the gospel’s “therefore” (for example in Romans 12:1) as underlining for us that all of our Christian living arises out of our new life in Christ.

Read the whole thing.