Sentences with phrase «concrete preaching of the gospel»

The task of the church as «body» is to implement this cosmic principle with the concrete preaching of the gospel to the whole world and especially to the Gentiles (Col. 1:27; Eph.

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The job of a Christian preacher, he said, is to «proclaim the given gospel to the given world,» The given gospel — that is to say, the gospel which has come to him from the Christian tradition which he represents and for which in his preaching function he speaks; the given world — that is to say, men and women in their actual concrete situation, with their interests and worries, their concerns and their problems, And the two are to go together, so that the gospel will be heard and (one hopes) accepted by those who hear its proclamation as directly relevant to their own lives.
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