Sentences with phrase «message of the gospel»

That is the often repeated message of the Gospel of John.

Well, the same could be said of the church's treatment of African - Americans, but it didn't stop blacks from separating the essential message of the gospel from its warped cultural accretions.

I often say that I don't «preach from the newspaper» and that's because it is important to remember that the timeless message of the Gospel transcends partisan politics, as well as the things that may capture our attention for either the moment or a 24 - hour news cycle (no «balloon boy» sermons any time soon).

It also notes that its summer camps «present the simple message of the Gospel as found in the Bible and teach Christian values without promoting nor condemning any denomination or church.»

There is a good deal of the central message of the Gospel here; God's gracious and forgiving love is powerfully described.

He approaches the problem from a purely academic standpoint and asks, How far does the essential message of the gospel confront us --(1) In the framework of a mythical world view conditioned by its environment and therefore irrelevant to the modern world?

The miss the fundamental message of the Gospel: to go into the world and live in such a way that the unbelievers will want to emulate them and freely join with them.

More generally, do young adults in America really need more religious leaders to «pay attention» to them and take them «more seriously,» or do they need a countercultural Church that will boldly preach the devastating and liberating message of the gospel?

On Sunday, may we acknowledge the fact that the teachings of Christ could never fit into a political party or platform, that our faith is bigger than our decisions in the ballot box, and that aligning ourselves with power threatens the true message of the Gospel.

Fr Conrad puts forward the history of apologetics down the centuries and concludes that there is a need «to meet people where they are — both intellectually and in terms of the media they attend to... [and] we need to work harder at getting the full message of the Gospel across».

In his book, Confessions of a Conservative Evangelical, Jack Rogers makes clear both the distinction between two levels of approach to the Bible and his own preference: «The first level is the central saving message of the gospel....

I thirst for the same message of the Gospel week after week because in the end I realize I just don't get it, except for an occasional brilliant illumination, which usually leaves my life in shambles, but leaves enough strength and compulsion to seek Him again.

The basic message of the Gospel is that God loved humanity so much that He sent Jesus to Earth to pay the penalty for our sins, resurrect, and now advocate on our behalf.

But the redemptive message of the gospel has never been more pertinent.

«We want this campaign not only to be about congregational singing, but churches partnering in missions to see more lives impacted by the transformational message of the gospel.»

Art. 7 of the Decree on the Missions says in so many words that God can give in ways known to himself the grace of faith and thus the hope and love necessary for eternal life also to those whom the actual message of the gospel has not reached.

Here everything begins and ends with prayer, and the distinct message of the gospel permeates everything.

I am now convinced that trinitarian theology captures some of the unique message of the gospel and expresses certain understandings of God consistent with women's experience.

This alliance with empire was a far cry from the persecuted early Church, despite some Fathers of the Church, like John Chrysostom, being faithful to the prophetic message of the gospel.

Marian spirituality had an effect of de-radicalizing the revolutionary message of the gospel.

They had become divided because some of their leaders took the clear and adequate message of the gospel of Christ and began to add other requirements for acceptance or retention in their fellowship.

Whereas the Church should be a prophetic voice for justice and peace and the integrity of creation, this globalization invites the Church to neglect the core message of the Gospel, to legitimize this social order based on greed and injustice to the majority of humanity and is racist in defending the present European - made world order.

The members of the silversmith guild at Ephesus rejected Paul's message of the gospel because it threatened their financial well - being.

But it is the great message of the gospel that we will find our lives in that of Jesus only to the extent that we are capable of accepting forgiveness.

But both sides, with their proverbs and passionate appeals, have missed the overarching message of the gospel, that it is good news for both the body and the spirit.

Accommodation (# 2) can easily lose the distinctive message of the gospel, while the institutional approach (# 3) tends to impose a particular ideological synthesis and to absolutize one ecclesiastical pattern.

Obedience and the spiritualized message of the Gospel replaced the genuine version of equality.

It gives a concise message of the Gospel.

It is for this reason I want to challenge us to employ three practices that will put us on track to steward the timeless message of the gospel during the muddled times we inhabit.

Yet with the full religious message of the gospel, people in Christian community can and do produce moral fruit utilizing agape in family and social strategies of mutuality and forgiveness.

That is the glad message of the Gospel.

To interpret the fundamental message of the Gospel — faith in the incarnate, crucified and risen God — to the man come of age was the mission of Bonhoeffer.

«The freedom and creative expression of this city have allowed the church to express itself in a new way, with the same timeless message of the Gospel,» he says.

In response to the decision, Ilesanmi said: «I am in the United Kingdom to bring back the true message of the gospel that Christians many years ago brought to Nigeria.

The radical message of the Gospel is that «while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.»

There are many ways to convey the life - giving message of the Gospel.

enough light for man to see the truth of the saving message of the Gospel.

In his recent book The Electronic Church (Nelson, 1979), he writes:» I believe that God has raised up this powerful technology of radio and television expressly to reach every man, woman, boy, and girl on earth with the even more powerful message of the gospel.»

The Cross and salvation is the central message of the Gospel.

But no one could seriously read the essential message of the gospels or study the lives of the early Christians without seeing that living according to the plan of God calls for the highest courage, and makes the most strenuous demands on the human spirit.

He said he hoped Bishops would «rally to defend the Bible's teaching on marriage, not merely for the sake of correct doctrine, but that we might preserve the message of the gospel for the salvation of all.»

Within this state, Paul teaches, Christians «try to persuade others» of the message of the gospel of Jesus.

When we become excessively legalistic, our hearts become dead, both to the message of the Gospel, and to our own salvation.