Sentences with phrase «heard the gospel in»

Paul recognized that he had an opportunity to preach to some men who would probably never hear the Gospel in any other way, and these men had areas of influence and power that most people in the Roman Empire didn't have.

I'm thankful that many people heard the gospel in mainline churches that were reenergized by the charismatic movement.

I confess: When I was young, I was a Catholic and was a churchgoer, but have never heard the gospel in the Roman Catholic Church.

They heard the gospel in this passage challenging the poor not to be overwhelmed by a sense of powerlessness and fear.

Not exact matches

The event drew an enthusiastic crowd of entrepreneurs, investors, and several hundred others interested in hearing the gospel straight from one of venture capital's leading apostles.

In hindsight, I feel like I endured four years of Señora Nicora, our arduous Spanish teacher, in order to hear the gospel from this gentlemaIn hindsight, I feel like I endured four years of Señora Nicora, our arduous Spanish teacher, in order to hear the gospel from this gentlemain order to hear the gospel from this gentleman.

Heck I just the other day finally got a new take on the idea of «two become one» in Genesis, the gospels, and Paul — and that's 14 years after the fact I first heard that scripture.

The Assembly heard «progressive» theologians attempt to advance new formulations of the gospel, and felt the strength of Orthodoxy and evangelical Protestantism in asserting biblical doctrines.

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.

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.

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.

And, yes, of course, churches should contextualize the gospel, addressing people in a language that can be heard and understood.

The plight of victims was also heard, with Eritrean gospel singer Helen Berhane telling the story of how she was arrested and imprisoned in a lorry shipping container after refusing to renounce her faith in Jesus.

In terms of pushing past some of the archaic ways that keep the Gospel from being heard in today's culture... NP is dead oIn terms of pushing past some of the archaic ways that keep the Gospel from being heard in today's culture... NP is dead oin today's culture... NP is dead on.

... we think that every believer has heard or read Paul's gospel, but a ponder for a minute those who lived and died and were unaware that there was such a person.It's not like Paul's letters were published and cd be bought in every market in the Roman wolrd.

But hearing the gospel out of someone else's mouth will do just fine to create faith in people.

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.

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.

But the gospel has power, and those who believe that, and preach it in the conviction that it can transform and ennoble lives, can still get a hearing.

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).

Evidently, you have never heard of John Newton — the former slave trader gave up that vocation upon coming to understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ, became a clergyman, and wrote the words of the great hymn «Amazing Grace» to celebrate and glorify God's unfathomable ability to FORGIVE — which hymn then became an anthem of the Christian anti-slavery movements in both Britain and the United States.

Early in Lent, we hear the Gospel accounts of Jesus fasting for forty days in the wilderness: the Devil's first temptation to the Incarnate God was to turn rock into bread.

Also, hearing or reading the word of God, the gospel, as explained in the parable of the sower is not always successful.

Imagine all the people who probably died, right there in the region of Galilee, during those 30 years, without ever hearing the Gospel!

The problem with this one presentation truth, however, is that if this is all a person hears about the Gospel, they are unlikely to believe in Jesus.

So this is why people should pray for their pastors: so that they will preach the Word, and preach it boldly, and especially preach the gospel so that the Kingdom of God can advance and grow as people hear the Gospel and believe in Jesus for everlastinggospel so that the Kingdom of God can advance and grow as people hear the Gospel and believe in Jesus for everlastingGospel and believe in Jesus for everlasting life.

In order to hear that, you will need to have your armor on, and you will need to be in prayer, especially that the gospel will be spreaIn order to hear that, you will need to have your armor on, and you will need to be in prayer, especially that the gospel will be spreain prayer, especially that the gospel will be spread.

In such circumstances the fundamental gospel promise of forgiveness and eternal life is heard as genuine Good News.

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.

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.

2000 years later, you are born, you grow up, you hear the Gospel message, and you believe in Jesus Christ for eternal life.

I lived in a very secular culture, where the chances of me ever hearing the gospel, let alone believing it, were extremely slim.

During Epiphany, the whisper in Bethlehem becomes a shout heard round the world and no Gospel makes the announcement more clearly than Matthew.

Our hearts may sing as we hear the glorious prophecy of Isaiah, as repeated in Matthew's Gospel: «The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light.»

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.

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.»

Third, the people have heard the proclamation of the gospel in scripture and sermon and have begun to separate suffering from evil.

Those who call themselves «evangelicals» today are also often in the forefront of efforts to bring the gospel to those who have not heard it effectively.

The Jesus we see in Matthew's Gospel is the person who is perfectly obedient to the will of God, so that the one who calls us is the one who himself hears and truly obeys the Father's will.

All too frequently this turns out to be a substitution for the gospel; it consists of some set of propositions, however traditional and however true they may be, which can in fact obscure the basic affirmations of Christian faith and make the gospel itself of none effect for those who hear.

It is perfectly possible for us, and hence for those who hear our preaching, to get so bogged down in the traditional biblical picture, taken in its most literal form, that the whole point of the gospel itself is lost.

We believe simply that there were many people that lived here who had they had the chance to hear our Gospel would have liked to have been baptized in our church!

well done Jerry God would uphold you, God know how to save and spread the gospel, if not we could have not heard in Africa mostly some part Nigeria, up till today some were still in darkness they have not heard about the gospel but when it is time for judgement, surely they must be judge, This question it is only God that can give the accurate answer to it, for it was written that both young and old would appear in the throne of judgement either you a day child or not, for there is / was no repentance after death, and to die its once, thanks.

Then there are some who say that God, in His infinite foreknowledge, looks into the possible futures of a person's life to see what that person would have done if they had heard the Gospel.

Others teach a form of Christian reincarnation so that before a person's eternal life is finally determined, they get to live a life in which they have the opportunity to hear and respond to the Gospel.

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 ministein [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 ministeIn 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 ministein 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 ministein 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.

I can't tell you how many times I have heard on the radio, or have read in books, or have listened to people share their testimony, and the way they present the Gospel is completely unscriptural!

Weigh in below with your own perspective on what happens to people who have never heard the Gospel.

Everyone in the neighborhood hears blaring gospel music (and knows that this is his morning routine).