Sentences with phrase «gospel good news to»

But if the old and the new selves are not fundamentally the same person, then in what sense is the gospel good news to sinners?

Not exact matches

This gospel is supposed to be good news to people — and we are meant to be good news to people, in their struggles, as we also see God work in their lives

No, you also believe that certain people are going to hell or you wont waste your time preaching the gospel -LCB- good news -RCB-.

So if our political agenda is not good news to the poor, then it's not the gospel of Jesus.

All those lost souls going off in front of her and she refuses to answer the call the Lord gave her in the Great Commission, go and spread the good news of the Gospel.

Evangelicals stress the priority of the gospel over the Church whose primary mission is to herald the good news of God's salvation in Christ.

Speaking about the value of catechism... Kevin DeYoung, pastor of University Reformed Church in East Lansing, MI, and one of the bloggers here at Evangel, recently agreed to an interview about his new book The Good News We Almost Forgot: Rediscovering the Gospel in a 16th Century Catechism, which is....

They may be prepared to receive and not only to discuss the undiscourageable, saving love of God which is the good news of the gospel.

Mr Joe Gibbs may preach the «gospel of winning», but does he preach «the good news of the kingdom» (Matt 24:14) that Jesus taught his disciples to preach world wide?

I feel the weight of that — not as a burden, but as a joy — that God trusts me enough to put people across my path to share the good news of the gospel.

I am, instead, committed to a gospel that truly is «good news» and gives us all voices and believes and sees those who have survived as fully human persons.

When Jesus came He and His disciples proclaimed the gospel / good news of the kingdom that had been promised to Israel.

God is Redeeming Life, Redeeming Theology Bible & Theology Topics: good news, gospel, gospel according to Scripture, Luke 12:51, Luke 2:10, Matthew 10:34, peace, sword, violence

II Corinthians 5:19 and I Corinthians 15:1 - 4 this is the gospel (GOOD NEWS) that we are to be proclaiming to mankind.

Second, on the Gospel, Rob Bell found himself in hot water yet again for the terrible crime of not being able to «tweet» the good news.

As I began to delve deeper into these passages, into this gospel story of which I am a part, I saw with fresh eyes and heard with fresh ears that the good news of Jesus is good for all.

In keeping with the notion that hearers of the call is a collective metaphor, we shall invite to the discussion four authors of popular commentaries on the First Gospel: Jack Dean Kingsbury, an American Protestant and author of Matthew in Proclamation Commentaries (Fortress Press, 1986); David Hill, a Britisher, author of The Gospel of Matthew in the New Century Bible Commentary (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1972); John P. Meier, an American Roman Catholic, author of Matthew in the New Testament Message Series (Michael Glazier, 1980): and Eduard Schweizer, a Swiss, author of The Good News According to Matthew translated by David Green (John Knox, 1975).

From the outset of his ministry he announces that God is about to invade the world and smash Satan's strongholds; in fact, one of the commonest nuances of evangelion, the word usually translated as «gospel, «is «good news from the battlefield.»

In this case, it seems to me that the gospel, or the «good news,» is a bit relative — because the part of it that isnews is relative to the person receiving it.

I have always understood the Gospel as being Good News for everyone, and that our role as believers and members of the Church is to welcome strangers, newcomers, and outsiders.

Sometimes I think that Christ's message (all of it) gets lost (especially by me) in the «mechanics» of what we think is the «right way» to bring the good news of the Gospel to ALL as Christ did and exhorts US to do RIGHT NOW!

We believed that one of the clearest ways we could bear witness to the good news about Jesus was to demonstrate that the gospel has power to bring divided peoples together in a common community.

This is one reason He is delaying His coming and why He asks preachers of righteousness like Noah to go out and spread the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ to all who will hear and believe.

The joy of the gospel of marriage springs from charity: 2 the same charity that compels bishops3 to faithfully proclaim the good news of marriage revealed in Christ; the same charity that is inseparable from the Truth, who frees the human person and reveals to him what it means to be human.4 Only in Jesus does every human being discover what it means to be truly human, to be made for God and to live in relationship with God, to have true happiness.

We should imitate God, whose works are always justice, truth and mercy.22 Indeed, Pope Francis clearly states that the joyful proclamation of the Good News, which includes marriage, is «to communicate more effectively the truth of the Gospel in a specific context, without renouncing the truth.»

The good news, the Gospel, is that while God is holy and we are sinners, and sin deserves punishment, God, out of His great love for us, sent His one and only Son, Jesus Christ to die in our place for our sin so that anyone who wants eternal life in heaven with God can simply believe in Jesus Christ for it and it will be given to them.

When the bad news of our psychic conditioning threatens to overwhelm the good news of God's grace, psychological counseling may be in order to help clear the ground for a less encumbered appreciation of the gospel.

Its most controversial aspect was the early decision to eschew a screenplay and have the movie follow, Pasolini - like, the Good News Bible's rendition of the Gospel of John word for word.

The good news is, if we want to find out who the God of the Gospel is, we don't have far to search.

And although «gospel» almost universally today refers to good news about forgiveness of sin and the offer of eternal life through Jesus Christ, the word itself carries no such connotations.

While the term gospel is a non-technical term for any good news, the NT usage seems to define it as good news for everybody, whether Jew or Gentile, believer or unbeliever, regarding the benefits and blessings which come to us from the person and work of Jesus Christ.

Just as the words «good news» can refer to almost any sort of happy event or positive outcome today, so also, the words «good news» or «gospel» could refer to almost anything good in biblical times as well.

Yes, I agree we need to be more mindful of people and their conditions and yes we need more compassion, grace and mercy when we preach the Gospel (because we are told to proclaim the good news) If you are not preaching the Gospel of Repentance, Mercy and Grace through the work of Jesus on the cross, then you (not anybody else) are demonstrating hatred to those you profess to love.

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Actress Sarah Silverman's show «I love you, America,» may not be the place that everyone expects to spot an incredible gospel message, but the Good News is in there.

Evangelization in the broadest sense is proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ to all people and bringing that gospel to bear, by word and deed, on the totality of things.

The gospel mandate to take the good news to the corners of the world and the symbolic representation of Eucharist as a cosmic banquet where people from the East and the West and from South and North participate with a sense of oneness and belonging epitomizes the urge for universalism.

If we are to have confidence that Christ is the bearer of the good news of the gospel, must we not also trust him in regard to his claim for the authority of Scripture?

There are many who like Zahnd's thinking because, as Rachel Held Evans says in her review of the book, «Zahnd cuts through all the fear and fundamentalism to reveal a gospel that is indeed good news.»

It is not quite accurate to say that he took the gospel of Jesus — that is, the message which Jesus himself had preached and taught — and made it over into the gospel about Jesus; for that is what the Christian message had been all along, from the very beginning of the Christian movement, ever since the assembling of the disciples after the Resurrection and their first proclamation of the good news about Jesus.

We have seen what this gospel or «good news» consists in; we have looked at the people to whom it is to be proclaimed; we have considered the preacher and the setting in Christian worship in which the proclamation is normally made.

Is it because no where in the Gospel (Good News) Christ denounces hom ose xua1ity or is because he actually gives his blessing to a gay marriage?

Nick Spencer, research director of the Theos think tank and author of The Evolution of the West (SPCK) argues that it is, and that it is a mistake to take the universalist message of the gospel — the good news is for everyone — as invalidation of all identifiers other than being a Christian: «I think that's problematic because it takes the universalist notion of Christianity without also taking the incarnational notion of Christianity which is local and which does have specific identities.

God is Redeeming Theology Bible & Theology Topics: eternal life, good news, gospel, gospel according to Scripture

The word gospel is just an old English word for a very ordinary phrase; good news (as opposed to bad news).

God is Redeeming Theology Bible & Theology Topics: good news, good works, gospel, gospel according to Scripture, sin

I also like Bruxy Cavey's (The Meeting House in Toronto) definition: the Gospel is the good news that Jesus came to show us God's love, to save us from sin, to set up his kingdom and to shut down religion.

Why does the gospel seem like just more bad news when it is supposed to be good news?

It seems that we should ask what was the «gospel / good news» that Jesus preached [Mark 1:14 - 15] and what was the «good news» that Jesus told His followers to preach [Matt 10:7 & Luke 10:8]?

It is not «gospel» or good news to homosexuals.