Sentences with phrase «heard the gospel at»

They hold that at least some ray of light has come into every life, or that everyone has heard the gospel at least one time.

He concluded: «I heard the gospel at various discrete moments in my travels... That the evangelical gospel can still be heard at all above the din of what passes for evangelicalism in America today is miracle enough perhaps, to capture the attention of even the most jaded observers.

Not exact matches

My opinion is that if someone has never heard of Jesus, or heard the gospel, then God would look at them the same way he does an innocent child.

Twenge and Campbell correctly lay much of the blame for the epidemic at the feet of the self - esteem movement, which has been enormously influential, not only in the spheres of popular psychology and education, but also as a central tenet of the «gospel of success» message heard in many evangelical megachurches.

Stringfellow quotes «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 sort» and then finds this «curious and ironical (sic — it should be ironic)»???? It is not at all.

Jesus speaks and acts in John's Gospel, the people hear him at one level while he seeks to move them to a deeper level.

The Gospels have in their way met this problem, not only by placing the kerygma on Jesus» lips, but also by presenting individual units from the tradition in such a way that the whole gospel becomes visible: At the call of Levi, we hear (Mark 2.17): «I came not to call the righteous, but sinners»; at the healing of the deaf - mute, we hear (Mark 7.37): «He has done all things well; he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.&raquAt the call of Levi, we hear (Mark 2.17): «I came not to call the righteous, but sinners»; at the healing of the deaf - mute, we hear (Mark 7.37): «He has done all things well; he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.&raquat the healing of the deaf - mute, we hear (Mark 7.37): «He has done all things well; he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.»

At the time I thought: «I'll go back to good people, Christian people, but dispersed and relatively directionless people, who hear the gospel as but one element competing for their attention.

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.

I believe that, if my conscience tells me it is unjust for someone who never heard the gospel to suffer eternal torture for being born at the wrong place at the wrong time, I should listen to that conscience.

According to Ryken, Packer failed to hear the genuine Gospel in his upbringing in a Church of England parish: He «did not know what [saving faith] was,» Packer says of himself at age fourteen, on the eve of his confirmation.

From the gospel accounts of his spoken words at the Last Supper, the unity of Catholic tradition holds that the Real Presence is divinely given in the sacrament of the Eucharist — substantively more than any lesser parallelism on our part of either seeing or hearing.

Finding candidates for the gospel who have never heard the name of Jesus Christ, but who are so ready for the whole Christian message that they simply fall at our feet — this never happens.

In more recent years, it is not at all uncommon to hear some Christian go around pronouncing curses and condemnation on people, and when you challenge them about their unloving behavior, they quote Galatians 1:8 - 9 and say, «Paul cursed people for the sake of the gospel; so can we.»

But all affirm the maxim extra ecclesia nulla salus — at least to the extent that one must have heard the preaching of the gospel or read the Bible, both of which are impossible without the Church.

Whenever that Word breaks through, then the gospel has been heard and evangelizing is at work.

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.

No one who has really heard the gospel of God's righteous and holy love enacted and released in Jesus Christ can be content to «sit at ease in Sion.»

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.

I found Christ in everything in the Church, so it is very odd that the woman at the beginning of the article did not hear about Jesus??! At Mass we listen to three readings from Scripture: the Old Testament, the New Testament and then the Gospel reading, plus we have Pslams which are read (or sung) inbetween, not to mention the entire Mass ceremony with the consecration JUST like in Scripture when Jesus was with the Apostleat the beginning of the article did not hear about Jesus??! At Mass we listen to three readings from Scripture: the Old Testament, the New Testament and then the Gospel reading, plus we have Pslams which are read (or sung) inbetween, not to mention the entire Mass ceremony with the consecration JUST like in Scripture when Jesus was with the ApostleAt Mass we listen to three readings from Scripture: the Old Testament, the New Testament and then the Gospel reading, plus we have Pslams which are read (or sung) inbetween, not to mention the entire Mass ceremony with the consecration JUST like in Scripture when Jesus was with the Apostles.

In the same letter, we read that the Gospel message «was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard, while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will» (Hebrews 2:3 - 4).

@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»

To paraphrase Charles Dickens just a bit, we have a far, far better gospel and a far, far better Savior to offer this world than what they have heard from us at times.

Beyond this, a gospel - centered approach to culture can encourage Christians to recognize that the Spirit of God is at work within culture even before the people in that culture hear and embrace the gospel.

The Fourth Gospel, which ignores both the baptism and the temptation, says that on the day after John's testimony to Jesus at the Jordan he repeated it in the hearing of two of his disciples (In 1:35 - 42), one of whom was Andrew of Bethsaida in Galilee, and that Andrew thereupon brought his brother Simon to Jesus, who named him forthwith «The Rock.»

When a person becomes a Christian at an Evangelistic Crusade, what Gospel do they hear, and what do they learn about Christianity and following Jesus?

Sharing the gospel means at least two things: the essence of the gospel must be presented in such a way that it may be seen and heard for what it truly is; it must also be presented in such a way that it may be either accepted or rejected.

Mark's Gospel manifestly appeared at a time when such a question might be asked as: «Why did we not hear of this finding of the empty tomb before?

Just as some can hear the Gospel, yet not believe, some who are «uneducated» according to the world's standards gladly rejoice at a smattering of the good news.

Jesus speaks of a salvation that looks at the heart and the deeds as well, which makes perfect sense in light of the fact that not all people will hear the gospel.

A former gang enforcer, Mr Lawson, who became a Christian while in jail, said it was «essential» inmates at Lewis Prison heard the Gospel.

[BUY THIS CARTOON] I thought it was funny imagining the Jesus we read about in the gospels sitting in on a sermon at one of our churches and that he hears about this Jesus...

In the beautiful departure speech in the 14th chapter of John, we hear, «In nay Father's house there are many dwelling places,» and at the end of the Gospel, John brings his witness to a close by noting that in addition to the things he has told us, there is so much more that if it were all reduced to writing, there wouldn't be enough space in the world to contain the number of books that would be required.

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 found the speech to be very moving.I also liked what the president said about Billy Graham.There was a time when this country seemed more at peace within.Billy Graham seemed to command respect from most quarters, and he had the role of a patriarchal leader, in his own way.I'm sure he has political views, but I have never heard him say things that are polarizing, unlike too many ministers today.This country needs another Billy Graham, who will stand for the gospel, and his convictions; but who doesn't major in alienating others.

In 1968, Uppsala delegates proposed to «let the world establish the agenda» while at the same time turning a deaf ear to the question «What about the two billion (who, it was reckoned, had not yet heard the gospel)?»

Where the Gospel is preached (and in many churches it is not), and we are called to continual repentance and living in such repentance and forgiveness, and there are people to hear, learn, believe, live in this forgiveness, there is a living church in Christ that rejoices at his goodness and goes forth in hope and continual renewal.

As a 22 - year - old Christian college student, ready to graduate and change the world, it bothered me to hear a successful Christian brag about his successes while preaching the gospel of prosperity, especially at the expense of neglecting family and community.