Growing up attending a conservative evangelical church, I was taught that I should invite the «unsaved» to church so they could
hear the Gospel preached and have a chance to «get saved.»
If you are willing to
hear the Gospel preached in the power of the Holy Spirit, you can be lead to believe.
People need to
hear a gospel preached by someone who is radically in love with Jesus.
-- For many of us that meant we should invite people to church so they could
hear the Gospel preached and «get saved.»
I was not brought up in a Christian home and never
heard the gospel preached.
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?
Not exact matches
They move to San Francisco, become gay, and zealously
preach the
gospel of atheism whether people want to
hear them or not... all the while thinking how much different and better than daddy they are.
The NT says to
preach the
Gospel — why
preach the
Gospel to churches full (or not so full) of people that have
heard it before?
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.
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.
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 everlasting
gospel so that the Kingdom of God can advance and grow as people
hear the
Gospel and believe in Jesus for everlasting
Gospel and believe in Jesus for everlasting life.
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.
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.
It's worth celebrating the good that is done, the people who
hear the truth, the wounds that are healed, the
Gospel that is
preached.
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.
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.
«The blind see, and the lame walk, The lepers are cleansed, and the deaf
hear, The dead are raised, and the poor have the
gospel preached to them.»
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;
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.
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.
Note that the command is clearly to the one
preaching the
gospel, not to the ones
hearing it.
that is, to go off and
preach another
gospel other than the one He wills we
hear through whom He has sent.]
Since that time he has been traveling to college campuses and churches
preaching the
gospel of climate emergency (and lamenting that there's nary a word about it in the churches, though were he to go to the liberal churches he would
hear plenty about it).
He sees indirect communication as the way to
preach and teach the
Gospel to those who have already
heard (00).
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.
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.
The
Gospel message had been
preached to my friend in a way that he could
hear it.
Jesus answered and said to them, «Go and tell John the things you have seen and
heard: that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf
hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the
gospel preached to them.
The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf
hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the
gospel preached to them (Matthew 11:5).
This would offend those who would say I'm called to
preach the
Gospel to the ends of the earth, but unfortunately, these men have
heard 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:
Many of those who
heard him
preach were God - fearing Gentile proselytes (cf. Acts 13:42 - 43), and so were predisposed to respond to the
gospel when they
heard it.
«Where churches are identified with wealth and privilege both the
preaching and the
hearing of the
gospel are hindered and Christ is obscured».
I think a true pastor needs to
preach to him some Law; remind him of his place in this world; then let him
hear the
Gospel.
Meanwhile these same laymen continue to
hear and assent without much protest to the
gospel as they
hear it
preached; for when presented in broad enough generalizations, it sounds familiar, true, and virtuous.
Christians today are the heirs of a long history of those who left their home countries and churches, apostles, monastics, pilgrims, missionaries, emigrants, to work in the name of Jesus Christ, serving and
preaching where the
Gospel had not yet been
heard or received.
Yes, he
preaches; he makes the
Gospel heard.
it is specifically «the
gospel of Jesus Christ» that we are to
preach, that, those who
hear and believe might be saved.
I
heard him
preaching the
gospel.
I think it is like holding a person under water in baptism long enough to get the fear of God into them, except they can
hear preaching including audio of a whole
Gospel.
Mat 11:4 Jesus answered and said to them, «Go and report to John what you
hear and see: Mat 11:5 the BLIND RECEIVE SIGHT and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf
hear, the dead are raised up, and the POOR HAVE THE
GOSPEL PREACHED TO THEM.
If the
preaching of the
gospel is urgent, so also is the
hearing of the
gospel, and an urgent hearer can make an urgent speaker.
Now I am a believer in Jesus and sometimes I
hear radio broadcasts of services of the German Evangelical Church, but they also don't
preach the
gospel, but any nonsense.
I would think that Martin Luther had
heard of these verses: Galatians 1:8 - 9 But though we, or an angel from heaven,
preach a
gospel to you besides that which we have
preached to you, let him be anathema.
In the conversations reported, the laymen are wrestling with the meaning of their lives and are unable to
hear and understand the
preaching of the church; and the preachers are struggling with the meaning of the
gospel with such exclusive concentration that they are estranged from the meanings of their people.
Conversations are reported where the laymen are wrestling with the meaning of their lives and are unable to
hear and understand the
preaching of the church; and the preachers are struggling with the meaning of the
gospel with such exclusive concentration that they are estranged from the meanings of their people.
Above all, make it a church where the
gospel is
preached, where you
hear what Christ has done for you and not endlessly what you need to do for him and how you need to change before you might be certain that you might be possibly saved.
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.