Sentences with phrase «hear the gospel because»

Listen: sinful men are dying, and they can't hear the Gospel because we are afraid that we are going to mistakenly tell them that God is going to do something for them that He is not going to do.

Some Christians say that God foreknows what a person will do when they hear the Gospel because God sees the past and the future as one big picture all at once since God is outside of time that He created as part of this universe.

The first man might not be able to hear the gospel because of his self - righteousness; the second man's meanings may open his ears so that he begins to understand the gospel in real depth.

Not exact matches

And please don't tell me it's because he was a duplicitous liar who told anyone anything they wanted ot hear in order to spread the gospel... because tha» t just not an admirable trait in anyone.

The convictionâ $» endemic among churchfolkâ $» persists that, if problems of misapprehension and misrepresentation are overcome and the gospel can be heard in its own integrity, the gospel will be found attractive by people, become popular, and, even, be a success of some sortâ $ ¦ This idea is both curious and ironical because it is bluntly contradicted in Scripture and in the experience of the continuing biblical witness in history from the event of Pentecost unto the present momentâ $ (William Stringfellow, quoted in A Keeper of the Word, p. 348).

Lets see, you reject the gospel because not everyone has heard it, is that right?

So I ask, because I have never heard someone (you were around GES much more than I) who claimed that this statement under consideration, and this statement alone is the gospel.

He does not have enough knowledge to take him to heaven, but he does have enough sin to send him to hell — the person who never hears of the name of Jesus doesn't go to hell because he has never heard the gospel, he goes to hell because he is a sinner, he is a monster of iniquity, willingly disobedient to his own conscience that screams to him whenever he does wrong (Romans 2:12 - 16)-- and he loves it so...

Living this side of Easter, we know what Mary and Martha could not know: that hearing and doing are finally in the realm not of law, but of gospel — because the host of the banquet has himself become the main course.

But in the present time, altogether too many of us may know or think we know the original quite well, but yet do not know the language into which we are to translate; hence the gospel as preached is preached to ears that do not and can not hear, because they are ears that are attuned to a quite different set of conditions, patterns of thought, and ways of conceiving the universe.

«People wanted to buy gospel music because they wanted to hear it,» he says.

I had my moments of disconnect: sitting out the Eucharist because I'm not Catholic, hearing the gospel reduced to salvation from hell, welcomes that felt patronizing from people who have been praying that I come to my senses and go back to believing, behaving, and voting just like them.

And those of them who hear us preach are quite likely to believe that we are not ourselves honest when we preach the gospel, because they know perfectly well that in our «secular» moments we do not subscribe to any such scheme of things.

I heard more of their intersecting stories, and when Idelette was done talking about her book, about her passions, I wanted to see her on every stage of every slick Christian conference, to bring some mama - truth, to preach the Gospel of Being With Each Other, but then I kind of had to shrug because part of Idelette's power is that she's outside of that system, outside of that church - marketing world, too busy living the truth of it to package it.

Now, there are many who hear the Gospel often but care little for it because they have not the spirit of Christ.

Even the Old Testament saints, who never heard the gospel as we have, will enjoy eternity with God because of what Jesus did for sinners.

If the FPCJG of Rom 8:29 - 30 is an unbreakable chain of salvation that occurs for ALL of God's covenant people, then the «calling» of that passage can not possibly be the explicit NT gospel call of I Corinthians 15:3 - 4, because clearly not ALL of God's elect were given the privilege of hearing and believing the explicit NT gospel call during their natural lives (Job 9:2, I Kings 14:13, Ephesians 3:5, Colossians 1:26, and Jeremiah 31:15 - 17 + Matthew 2:16 - 18).

The Church will not, for example, be able to baptize an African chieftain who wants to keep his harem; yet she may, in certain circumstances, judge that he has a subjectively good conscience (though he has heard the message of the gospel and is willing in principle to believe in it), because in his actual social and human circumstances he can not yet realize the moral demand of monogamy, as little as formerly king David and king Solomon.

At Zhang's hearing, IRB adjudicator Leonard Favreau ruled Zhang joined a church in Canada to support a fraudulent refugee claim because Zhang only knew the names of two of Jesus» apostles, two of the gospels, and one prayer — the Lord's Prayer, which he recited incorrectly.

Columba had chosen to go face to face with the main Druid priest in order to try and give him the Gospel, not for the first time because He heard God telling him (through Ezekiel's words in the Bible) to go and tell them the truth, no matter their reaction.

@jf well your information about the New Testament is about as accurate as your Old Testament knowledge, The prophecies of the Old testament concerning Christ could not have been written after the fact because we now have the Dead Sea Scrolls, with an almost complete Old Testament dated 100 - 200 years before the birth of Christ, Your interpretation of God at His worst shows a complete lack of understanding as to what was being communicated.We don't know what the original texts of the New Testament were written in as to date there are no original copies available.Greek was the common language of the day.Most of the gospels were reported written somewhere in the 30 year after Christs resurrection time frame, not the unspecified «long after «you reference and three of the authors knew Jesus personally in His earthly ministry, the other Knew Jesus as his savior and was in the company of many who also knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes»

There is also a tragic coincidence that most of the world's poor have not heard the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; or they could not receive it, because it was not recognized as Good News in the way in which it was brought.

But I get weary of hearing the declaration repeated because there is so little likelihood of increasing our national understanding of the gospel by representing it as a sort of emergency supplement to the police force.

of the Syrian Church, it is said «The Apostles have also decreed that at the end of all the scriptures, the Gospel shall be read as the seal of all the scriptures, the people rising to their feet to hear it; because it is the salvation of all men.»

I heard one pastor last year on the radio say that he never shares the gospel with a child until they are 12 or 13, because he said they can't understand it until then.

Please consider another possibility: that Belgium, and other Catholic wastelands in 21st - century Europe, did not hear the Gospel and reject it because of cultural pressures; might it be that these faith - free zones haven't heard the Gospel preached for quite a while?

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