This Is My Gospel

And this is my gospel - repentance and baptism by water, and then cometh the baptism of the fire and the Holy Ghost, even the Comforter, which showeth all things, and teacheth the peaceable things of the kingdom. Doctrine & Covenants 39:6

The gospel of Jesus Christ is the glad tidings that the Son of God came into the world to ransom us from death and sin and eternal unhappiness (D&C 76:40-42). It is the good news that redemption from the Fall and deliverance from the effects of individual sins are available to every accountable person on conditions of repentance. But the gospel is also described in scripture as the good news that can be appropriated into our personal lives through receiving what the Prophet Joseph called “the articles of adoption”: those actions and rites that enable us to be adopted into the family of the Lord Jesus Christ (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 328). These articles of adoption we know as the first principles and ordinances of the gospel (Articles of Faith 1:4; D&C 33:11-12). These simple principles and ordinances lead the obedient disciple to understand and experience profound truths. (Robert L. Millet and Lloyd D. Newell. Draw Near Unto Me: Daily Reflections on the Doctrine and Covenants. 105)