Sentences with phrase «much preaching of the gospel»

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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.

One must also understand the Wesleyan movement as preaching a gospel of free grace that at times sounds very much like the Reformation theme of «justification by faith.»

D. Martyn Lloyd - Jones (1899 - 1981)[in an excerpt from Romans: The New Man, An Exposition of Chapter 6, Banner of Truth, 1972] said: There is no better test as to whether a man is really preaching the New Testament gospel of salvation than this, that some people might misunderstand it and misinterpret it to mean that it really amounts to this, that because you are saved by grace alone it does not matter at all what you do; you can go on sinning as much as you like because it will redound all the more to the glory of grace.

I should answer that such an understanding of the way in which the compilation of the gospel narratives took place, and also of the nature of the material which they contain, delivers us in our preaching of the kerygma from much that was troublesome and confusing to an earlier generation.

In reading the entire chapter in context, Paul went much further, by word and deed, as an example to clearly demonstrate that he believed one's personal right to compensation for preaching the gospel ends where the gospel of Christ begins.

From the comment and evaluation of the missionaries, it can be assumed that the preaching and verbal communication of the Gospel were largely a one - way process, and not much of what they preached was actually understood.

There is not much likelihood of any widespread repentance unless the imperatives of the Christian gospel are driven home to our consciences, not by preaching only, but by prayer.

Of course, as Paul and Silas went to his house and preached the gospel to him and his family, they got much more than the Jailor asked for...

We need to eliminate those positions if we want to reduce corruption in government because we can never eliminate those traits from human beings, regardless of how much or how loudly we preach the Gospel to them.

If the gospel were authentically preached and lived, he writes, «our churches will of course get much smaller than they are.

Instead of the preaching of Jesus the preaching of the early church would call for explanation, and since the investigation really concerns the content, meaning, and validity for us of what is taught in the gospels, the question of how much the historical Jesus and how much other people have contributed to that content is of secondary importance.

Where however the preaching of the gospel is reverently heard and the sacraments are not neglected, there for the time being no deceitful or ambiguous form of the church is seen; and no one is permitted to spurn its authority, flout its warnings, resist its counsels, or make light of its chastisements — much less to desert it and break its unity.