Today’s generation instinctively navigates a multi-cultural world online and offline, daily and effortlessly. Gospel Spice invites these global culture-conscious Christians and active seekers alongside Jesus’ initial audience to experience the fresh spiritual flavors of the messianic Jewish culture in Matthew’s Gospel.

In today’s unprecedented environment of global cross-cultural interactions, professing Christians and active seekers routinely encounter other faiths, languages and backgrounds at work, at home, at school and even at church. This new daily reality has given birth to an awareness of the otherness of Jesus’ own culture and a desire to understand it.

What's the Problem? 

Tim Keller once said on Facebook, “Lack of cultural awareness leads to distorted Christian living.” He raised up a storm of comments from people who were genuinely confused. “What does cultural awareness have to do with Christian living?” they asked.

Everything.

When Matthew wrote his Gospel, he didn’t anticipate 2,000 years of primarily-Gentile church history. Never in his wildest dreams did he imagine Instagram, Google cars, or a Bible app. Our world would utterly bewilder him.

And his, us.

Our 21^st century Gentile Western mind has lost the nuances that Matthew didn’t feel compelled to pen. Communication never happens in a vacuum. Even Jesus, the consummate communicator, always folded the flavors of his audience’s culture into the teachings He calls us to enjoy.

What's our solution?

We invite you to join the Gospel Spice Podcast for a guided tour to experience the Gospel of Matthew through a Jewish cultural framework while retaining orthodox Christian doctrine.

We follow Matthew, the Jewish author of the first Gospel, as he flavors his narrative with fresh and exotic Middle Eastern spiritual spices to enhance our heart-and-mind relational experience with Jesus. The every-day foodie Christians in search of renewed intimacy with God, as well as the active seekers, will appreciate the easy-to-follow, in-depth cultural insights as they embark on a journey to experience Jesus through stories, analogies, and timeless biblical truths.

We make first-century Jewish culture accessible to modern twenty-first century minds by putting scholarly research within the grasp of everyday Scripture readers. The more avid Bible student will find overly familiar passages come to life anew like a welcome breath of fresh air as well. This invigorating cultural 3-D experience is the solution if the Bible has become flat and stale to today’s Christian.

Through the series, you will

• Connect with Jesus, Matthew and their original audience in unforgettable ways;
• Be captivated with the breathtaking identity and claim of Jesus Christ through a cultural lens;
• Grow spiritually towards Christian maturity through a generationally relevant approach to Scripture.

Every week, Gospel Spice will publish a new episode in the podcast. It will take 8 months to experience the fullness of the gospel! We also offer an extensive workbook to cover each episode. For each one of the 30+ episodes in the series, you will enjoy:

• An episode summary
• A listening guide to take notes
• 3 key takeaways
• 8-10 questions to go deeper, on your own or with a friend or a group.
• Quotes
• Bible verses to study and/or memorize
• Topics related to the lesson, that you can choose to study deeper on your own
• And more.

There will be 3 separate printable e-books to cover all the series, each workbook containing about 10 episodes.

We will provide additional tools to help you go deeper.

Listening is completely FREE! We are a tax-exempt, non-profit ministry. If you enjoy our ministry, consider PAYING THIS STUDY FORWARD:

- via credit card (select the CREDIT CARD) OPTION

- via Paypal or Venmo.

For the full experience: Consider purchasing our exclusive, high-quality, content-full printable e-books. 

We offer 3 separate workbooks each covering 10-12 episodes.

To purchase the first printable e-book on episodes 1-12 click HERE.

You can also purchase the second printable e-book for episodes 13-23. Check it out HERE! 

Below we have laid out options for purchasing each book individually, or bundling to SAVE! 

You can do this study on your own, or gather others to experience Centering on Christ together!

If you would like to gather a small group around this study, either virtually (Zoom) or face to face (in your home, a public place or your church for example), please contact us so we can support you.