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Yes, Christ asked us to try. But what you miss by not reading the Gospel in its entirety is exactly how you're meant to try, and the most effective and meaningful ways of trying. If the Message was as simple as you try to make it sound, it wouldn't take four books to explain it to you. By adopting a "Well, I got the jist" attitude and skipping the Gospel in its entirety, you are missing the history, meaning, justifications, methods, works, and promises (both the promises fulfilled and the new promises made). If you have not read the Sermon on The Mount, you can only have the most rudimentary understanding of Christianity and its methodology and tradition. If you don't know the most important events in the life of Christ, you can't know just how many prophecies He fulfilled in His life and His death. You can't understand the gravity of His statement on the cross, "It is finished." Those three words comprise one of the most profound and world-changing statements in the entire Bible, and you can't even know it.
If you truly want to follow Christ and live a good life that He would be proud of, it is uncompromisable that you read His full story. He lived a hard life and died an even harder death to grant us eternal life through salvation. The least we can all do is read what He left behind for us.
