Sentences with phrase «heard the gospel presented»

When is the last time you have heard the gospel presented as «Believe and be saved?»

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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).

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.»

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 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!

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.

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.

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.

When a Crusade Evangelist gets all the glamor, glitz, and glory of presenting the «Gospel» to millions of people, and the people hear a message about being born again, and then those who respond attend a church without all the glamor, glitz, and glory, and they hear a message about discipleship, following Jesus, danger, famine, persecution, and suffering, they rightfully feel that somebody is not being honest.

I can testify that Christ indeed is a very present help in a time of trouble and the gospel message is heard and understood most clearly in a time of suffering.

Nonetheless, such a perspective still presents an obligation to search to identify where the gospel is being preached and heard and the sacraments administered and to express our unity visibly.