Pray for people you don't know.

Start at the top and work down.

Start in your family and work out.

Start at your office with those that you don't work with.

Go to a school, choose a group of coaches.

Pray for people you don't know and pray unceasingly.

Every person on earth has embraced a theological point of view, but it's God that defines his character, not man.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall takes you inside the most influential letter ever written,

one that transformed a violent persecutor into Christianity's greatest missionary.

The Book of Romans isn't an academic textbook on theology.

It's a passionate message written by the Apostle Paul that will set your heart on fire.

And it's the final authority for Christians.

God is the author of Uncompromised Truth.

Chuck titled today's message,

Getting a Grasp of the Gospel.

The gospel is the good news that God loves you.

He loved the people of Rome, and he loves the people today to whom I speak and those to whom you will speak in the week to come. This is the good news that

originates with God. Romans 15-4 states, whatever was written in earlier times,

referring to the Old Testament,

was written for our learning that we through patience

and comfort in the scriptures should have hope.

So Paul is saying, as I deliver the gospel as an apostle, and as I carry it being called to this work of mission, as I do all of this, I remember that it's not mine, it's really that which I have received from centuries past.

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