Sentences with phrase «hear the gospel proclaimed»

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They're going to hear the gospel much clearer from Tyson Fury, someone they can identify with, and has behaviour, language and culture closer to theirs, and who is willing to very loudly and boldly proclaim that he loves and needs Jesus.

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.

If, instead of gospel, what is proclaimed in the churches is nothing more than the kinds of «musts» and «shoulds» and «ought to's» that one can hear from many other quarters — along with the ubiquitous language of «rights» — then we can not expect church people to be any more receptive to such exhortations than are their counter parts in society at large.

Second, a more acute sensitivity to a congregation's idiom should increase the facility with which the gospel is proclaimed and heard in its midst.

Hearing and proclaiming the gospel.

In the context, Paul has been proclaiming the gospel in Antioch, and when he concludes, Luke records this about those who heard Paul preach:

An excellent illustration is to be found in I Corinthians 11 where Paul's text is the tradition («The Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was betrayed, took bread...»).14 His text, translated and proclaimed for the Corinthian situation, stands now as our text for proclamation to the situation of the present hearers, a situation that will, in dialogue with the text, create a new speaking and hearing of the Gospel.

We have a golden opportunity here to engage with the modern mind and proclaim the Gospel in terms that will be heard and understood more clearly.

If we are not one in proclaiming the Gospel, the world will find the Gospel very hard to hear.