2000 years later, you are born, you grow up,
you hear the Gospel message, and you believe in Jesus Christ for eternal life.
He heard the Gospel message again and we pray that he will humble himself before God.»
Many postconservatives abandon exclusivism and opt for a new inclusivist view of salvation, believing it is possible for many who never
hear the gospel message to be saved.
Most will not even be able to
hear the gospel message, much less respond to it.
Not exact matches
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.
First, those who will make a decision based upon a single
hearing of the
Gospel message will be few and far spread.
The Church will not, for example, be able to baptize an African chieftain who wants to keep his harem; yet she may, in certain circumstances, judge that he has a subjectively good conscience (though he has
heard the
message of the
gospel and is willing in principle to believe in it), because in his actual social and human circumstances he can not yet realize the moral demand of monogamy, as little as formerly king David and king Solomon.
The guy talked and drew for about five minutes, and then as he closed up, we were supposed to pull a
Gospel tract out of our pocket and hand it to a stranger nearby and ask what they thought about Jesus and the
message they had just
heard, and if they had any questions or wanted us to pray with them.
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 discussions of the «indigenization» of the church in non-Western cultures one
hears that the New Testament itself is a particular indigenization and that the
gospel message needs to be extracted from first century «cultural clothing» to be re-clothed in that of another age.
Or some
hear the
gospel as a metaphorical
message about how to live a better life in the here and now and view any talk of after - lives, eternal damnation, and saving as only metaphor that tends to get abused when it is used to stir up fear in order to get converts and tithing members.
By the way, I have read of a novel type of Arminian Prevenient Grace called «individualistic Prevenient Grace» which is applied to an individual when he or she first
hears or reads the
gospel message.
The
Gospel message had been preached to my friend in a way that he could
hear it.
These sorts of examples are found all over the place in the Bible, and the consistent
message and expectation of biblical authors is that anyone and everyone can
hear and understand the
Gospel, and having
heard, believe in Jesus for eternal life.
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).
In other words, though God may order the events which allows a person to
hear the
message of the
Gospel, and while God gives eternal life and confers the status of sonship to those who do believe, God does not force anyone to believe or restrict others from doing so.
The
message of the last judgment is to be
heard in the context of the
gospel.
The basic
gospel message heard in many churches and found in many books in the United States can be summarized this way:
Presentations of the «
gospel» that I
hear, seem to still carry that
message.
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.
Then the confident words: «For those of you that think that
gospel music has gone too far, you think we've gotten too radical with our
message, well I've got news for you: you ain't
heard nothing yet.»
Anyone can preach about Christ... and anyone can «
hear» that
gospel message.
Those who
heard the
gospel and yet choose to reject the
message will not have a second Chance they will have to wait for the second resurrection or the resurrection of the evening.
NP is not saying anything different than Paul would have
heard in his lifetime â $ «and NP is not backing away from the
gospel either (or his
message to his congregation).
Yet, many people in our culture claim to be Christians but have never
heard a comprehensive
gospel message.
If the
message is the
gospel, that we are sinners in need of a savior and that savior is Christ, and they can land thousands in the seat to
hear it then they stand a good chance of success.
The show will enable us to use that platform to spread the
gospel of peace which we are all desperately crying for before during and after the election, we believe every music lover who attends will
hear and also spread the
message further,» he added.