Billy Graham has preached to tens of millions of people face - to - face, with some estimates saying more than two billion people in total have
heard the Gospel through his minstry.
Not exact matches
We actually trust that the Word of God will change hearts and bring people to a living faith in Christ the Savior,
through the
hearing of the
gospel.
But it is
through preaching that we get our marching orders, it is
through preaching that the lost world
hears the
gospel so they can be transferred from the side of the enemy and join our side, the side of our victorious Jesus Christ.
21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 22 In the body of his flesh
through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: 23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and [be] not moved away from the hope of the
gospel, which ye have
heard, [and] which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
I think that most of us, in reading
through this passage in the past, or in
hearing someone else teach on it, have thought that the sandals are the
gospel.
Graham, his son, Franklin, and others can still preach a meeting and people will come to
hear the truth of the
Gospel and many will respond by grace
through faith.
that is, to go off and preach another
gospel other than the one He wills we
hear through whom He has sent.]
When most people today
hear the sentence «You must believe the
gospel to be saved» what actually goes
through their mind is this: «Here are the things you must believe in order to go to heaven when you die» (And of course, everyone has a different idea about what we must believe).
Whenever that Word breaks
through, then the
gospel has been
heard and evangelizing is at work.
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.
I hope that any neoconservative would look
through the
gospels that Byzantine Catholics and Orthodox
hear on the Sundays that lead up to Lent and even listen to the USCCB before they hold up the bible or cite their Christian beliefs while flouting their anti-poor positions.
But having read the
gospel of John and
hearing Jesus» promise, he entrusted his eternal destiny to Christ by believing into Jesus
through His promise to guarantee eternal life to all who believe in Him for it.
Throughout Matthew's
gospel, the gentle insistence and power of divine authority consistently cuts
through the tangled jungle of human error and ignorance: «You have
heard how it was said of old... But I say to you» (Mt 5, 33 - 34) · Christ prepares the disciples, and especially Simon Peter, to be bearers of this divine authority.