Power in the gospel

“I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.” Romans 1:16
The gospel is powerful. It is the word of God, which “shall not return void” (Isa. 55:11) and “is living and active” (Heb. 4:12). It has the power to change a sinner’s destiny from eternal judgement in hell, to eternal glory in heaven. It has the power to set people free from the sin that binds them, and enable them to live on a higher plane according to the Spirit.
The gospel tells us how God reached down from heaven into the cesspool of humanity, offering His hand to pull us out if we would just grab hold of Him. There is no limit as to who can be saved; as the verse says, “everyone who believes”. The offer is available to all, and the choice is ours whether to accept it or not.
We should not be ashamed of the gospel. It is the only way by which people are able to be saved. If they aren’t shown the gospel, the good news, of how Jesus Christ came to die in our place and took the punishment our sin deserved, and conquered death by rising three days later, and that if we will repent of our sin and believe on Him, we will spend eternity in heaven with Him – if they don’t hear this from us, who will they hear it from?