In order to follow Jesus, we must first understand the gospel which " literally means, "good news." It's the good news that Jesus Christ died for our sins and rose again from the dead. The Apostle Paul gives us a clear picture of what the gospel is in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 , which says; Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel I preached to you, which you received, on which you have taken your stand and by which you are being saved, if you hold to the message I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I passed on to you as most important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, (CSB)