I’ve been making an intentional listen to speakers that “preach the gospel.”
There is one pastor in town I am acquainted with who definitely does not “preach the gospel”. To him, from his speech and actions, kind and compassionate social help is the gospel.
I’m also a great fan of unapologetic Dr Voddie Bauchman. If you know him, you get it, the gospel.
So I’m asking “the average dick n sally”, here,
What is The Gospel and are we compelled to do something with it? If compelled, what compels you?
I don’t know about Dr. Bauchman. But I like ths sound of that first person you mentioned. Sounds amazing and on point.
Sounds Christ like to me. Helping others in need. Feeding the hungry. Speaking to and meeting the need. Healing, guiding, being in community.
Showing the unconditional love of God rather than expressing a false conditional love which exchanges good deeds in order to push the agenda of a purely conditional transactional love.
Love God and Love your neighbor as yourself focussed. Which is what Christ taught. A love which leads others to change their hearts and chase after the God that can soothe their souls and give them peace. The God who saves. Hosanna.
Not into judgy types at all. Those who live and breathe hell fire and damnation as if they are demons getting drunk on human suffering?
You know the kind…Those demons who spurn the kindness of God as ignorance, who spit in the face of children after beating them mercilessly to break them?
The kind who plead for money while cursing the sinner of the week?
The kind who form cults that tell people to jump through hoop after hoop after hoop in order to controll them. Like telling women that they must wear their hair and dresses long, and always be quiet and submissive to the man of the house? Or say its okay to take child brides, or multiple wives?
No, I like it when the Good News actually inspires Salvation, a change of heart, Joy, Celebration, and Freedom from slavery to the dark impulses that run this world which focusses on debt collection and bank accounts rather than forgiveness and healing and the well being of people.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
That’s it.
Paul put it this way when writing to the Ephesians:
Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
As Joe has said the gospel is the good news that Jesus saves us from the consequences of our sin and restores our relationship with God.
What are we to do with it? Tell others.
Why. Matt28 the great commission and because we are to love others as we love ourselves. How loving is not telling those facing Gods judgement.
Social action, again if someone is in need of help we should help them.
Often a persons worries and problems distract them from giving the gospel their attention.
Love is not a fluffy feeling but a driving force for action.
The Gospel is the good news that God, in His love and mercy, has made a way for sinners to be reconciled to Him through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. All people have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and the just penalty for sin is death. Yet God, in His grace, sent His Son Jesus, who is fully God and fully man, to live a sinless life and to willingly die on the cross as a substitute for sinners. Through His sacrificial death, Jesus bore the wrath of God that we deserved, and through His resurrection, He triumphed over sin and death, offering eternal life to all who repent and believe in Him. This salvation is not earned by works but is received by faith alone in Christ alone. Those who trust in Him are forgiven, made right with God, and adopted into His family, with the hope of eternal life in His presence.
The Good News is the way Jesus liked to present it, and there is no better Good News! A heart filled with Love is a heart close to God, and a direct result of true repentance! Sharing the Gospel is a combination of loving and explaining, and increases as we decrease! We should be easily-identifiable in a good way!
Blessings: after reading responses concerning the gospel I felt the need to respond. The gospel was planned long before Adam & Eve (Galatians Ch. 4) The gospel was revealed to Paul to preach it first by the Holy Spirit and then the mysteries. The gospel:Christ died for out sins according to the scriptures, He was buried and rose again the third day….1st Corinthians 15:1-
The Gospel is Basic Instruction Before Leaving Earth B.I.B.L.E
The Gospel is the Mind of Christ
The Revelation of Jesus Christ In Revelation 1:1 (NKJV) The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants–things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John.
Chapter one. the priesthood of Christ Jesus
Chapter 2-3. The church and the church age
Chapter 4:The transition from church to tribulation
Chapter 5 – 18.the seven years tribulation
Chapter 19 -20. Christ returns to ring 1,000 years complete 7,0000 give or take
Chapter 21- 22.The new earth and the new Jerusalem
Chapter the six one and four breaking of the seven seals scroll.
Chapter 6 through17initiation tribulation judgments the latter half of the 42 months
