Before long, Larry is back on the scene with much more on
his mind than a gospel Web site — this time Larry wants to affect change in government.
Not exact matches
Let us read the
gospel boldly and we shall see that no idea can better convey to our
minds the redemptive function of the Word
than that of a unification of all flesh in one and the same Spirit.
Lutherans today are both more sophisticated and more liturgically
minded than they were in my youth and so they are less tolerant of the sentimental nineteenth - century
gospel songs that for so long dominated Protestant hymnody, but they will now and then allow those of us at mid-life or beyond to sing again the songs we grew up with but which more informed tastes tell us (and we try to tell ourselves) we should not have liked as much as we did.
The Christians who ask us if we «share the
Gospel» have something else in
mind than what happens at these events.
(Never
mind that the canonical Jesus is far more appealing
than the docetic Jesus of the Gnostic
gospels.)
When Jesus, Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter, etc. wrote about «
gospel» they had a LOT more in
mind than words about Jesus formulated as statements.
The man who is shaped and molded by his continuing participation in the round of Christian liturgical worship is the man who comes gradually to be informed by the spirit which animates and governs the liturgy — and that spirit is nothing other
than response to the
gospel of Christ, made known and communicated through the preaching of the
gospel, but not through verbal symbols alone; the response becomes effective through the whole action which includes
mind and body, will and emotions, in an offering to God in union with his brethren.
A process and a journey that some find through opening their
minds and eyes and seeking answers rather
than accepting
gospel.