Sentences with phrase «n't hear the gospel»

Listen: sinful men are dying, and they can't hear the Gospel because we are afraid that we are going to mistakenly tell them that God is going to do something for them that He is not going to do.

On the other hand, we may not keep them and not hear the gospel and despair entirely...

He does not condemn anyone for not having been born in the right part of the world, or for not hearing the gospel.

In other words, most people today who have not heard the gospel already belong to a major religion, says CSGC director Todd Johnson.

Please consider another possibility: that Belgium, and other Catholic wastelands in 21st - century Europe, did not hear the Gospel and reject it because of cultural pressures; might it be that these faith - free zones haven't heard the Gospel preached for quite a while?

24: 36) and that May 21 could not possibly be the last day when so many on earth still have not heard the gospel of Jesus (Matt.

Not exact matches

And please don't tell me it's because he was a duplicitous liar who told anyone anything they wanted ot hear in order to spread the gospel... because tha» t just not an admirable trait in anyone.

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.

It is true that, if a person does not want to hear the Gospel of Jesus, then it is best to respect their wishes.

Baptism for the dead is for those who don't have the opportunity to hear the fullness of the gospel during their lifetime.

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.

... we think that every believer has heard or read Paul's gospel, but a ponder for a minute those who lived and died and were unaware that there was such a person.It's not like Paul's letters were published and cd be bought in every market in the Roman wolrd.

The NT says to preach the Gospel — why preach the Gospel to churches full (or not so full) of people that have heard it before?

Stringfellow quotes «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 sort» and then finds this «curious and ironical (sic — it should be ironic)»???? It is not at all.

Also, hearing or reading the word of God, the gospel, as explained in the parable of the sower is not always successful.

Lets see, you reject the gospel because not everyone has heard it, is that right?

He does not have enough knowledge to take him to heaven, but he does have enough sin to send him to hell — the person who never hears of the name of Jesus doesn't go to hell because he has never heard the gospel, he goes to hell because he is a sinner, he is a monster of iniquity, willingly disobedient to his own conscience that screams to him whenever he does wrong (Romans 2:12 - 16)-- and he loves it so...

Paul recognized that he had an opportunity to preach to some men who would probably never hear the Gospel in any other way, and these men had areas of influence and power that most people in the Roman Empire didn't have.

I had not heard about the Gospel littering idea.

Living this side of Easter, we know what Mary and Martha could not know: that hearing and doing are finally in the realm not of law, but of gospel — because the host of the banquet has himself become the main course.

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.»

Those who call themselves «evangelicals» today are also often in the forefront of efforts to bring the gospel to those who have not heard it effectively.

well done Jerry God would uphold you, God know how to save and spread the gospel, if not we could have not heard in Africa mostly some part Nigeria, up till today some were still in darkness they have not heard about the gospel but when it is time for judgement, surely they must be judge, This question it is only God that can give the accurate answer to it, for it was written that both young and old would appear in the throne of judgement either you a day child or not, for there is / was no repentance after death, and to die its once, thanks.

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!

I had my moments of disconnect: sitting out the Eucharist because I'm not Catholic, hearing the gospel reduced to salvation from hell, welcomes that felt patronizing from people who have been praying that I come to my senses and go back to believing, behaving, and voting just like them.

He desired to hear more, and the important point to note is that St Francis did not directly attack the tenets of Islam, but rather focused on expounding the Christian Gospel.

And those of them who hear us preach are quite likely to believe that we are not ourselves honest when we preach the gospel, because they know perfectly well that in our «secular» moments we do not subscribe to any such scheme of things.

It is well illustrated by a verse in the Gospel of John (3:8) «The wind [pneuma] blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes; so it is with every one who is born of the Spirit [pneuma].»

The bottom line is this: We don't know for sure exactly what happens to those who have never heard the Gospel.

Now, there are many who hear the Gospel often but care little for it because they have not the spirit of Christ.

you could have added «We don't know for sure exactly what happens to those who have heard the Gospel.»

Unless the preacher breaks the barrier that they offer, the gospel can not be heard.

If the FPCJG of Rom 8:29 - 30 is an unbreakable chain of salvation that occurs for ALL of God's covenant people, then the «calling» of that passage can not possibly be the explicit NT gospel call of I Corinthians 15:3 - 4, because clearly not ALL of God's elect were given the privilege of hearing and believing the explicit NT gospel call during their natural lives (Job 9:2, I Kings 14:13, Ephesians 3:5, Colossians 1:26, and Jeremiah 31:15 - 17 + Matthew 2:16 - 18).

The man who has heard the gospel will know that he does not need to support the church.

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.

According to Ryken, Packer failed to hear the genuine Gospel in his upbringing in a Church of England parish: He «did not know what [saving faith] was,» Packer says of himself at age fourteen, on the eve of his confirmation.

Jesus is not saying that God has chosen who the sheep will be before they ever believe in Jesus, and when people hear the Gospel, only those who are predestined to be God's sheep will actually believe.

Note that the command is clearly to the one preaching the gospel, not to the ones hearing it.

The Christian who has eyes to see and ears to hear can observe and perceive gospel truths all around them in music, movies, art, and plays, even when those things were created by people who were not Christians.

I think it's important what you do when you hear the gospel and apparently the man you spoke of hadn't heard it.

In more recent years, it is not at all uncommon to hear some Christian go around pronouncing curses and condemnation on people, and when you challenge them about their unloving behavior, they quote Galatians 1:8 - 9 and say, «Paul cursed people for the sake of the gospel; so can we.»

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

The term is not, however, to be found in the book itself; where we hear of «secret words» or of the «mysteries» of Jesus (62) or of «the word of the Father» (79) Thus while the compilation of Thomas is in form not unlike the collection or collections of sayings of Jesus which may underlie the materials common to Matthew and Luke, there is no reason to suppose that the two are related, or that either was originally known as a gospel.

If, instead of gospel, what is proclaimed in the churches is nothing more than the kinds of «musts» and «shoulds» and «ought to's» that one can hear from many other quarters — along with the ubiquitous language of «rights» — then we can not expect church people to be any more receptive to such exhortations than are their counter parts in society at large.

When we say in the General Confession, «We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and have done those things which we ought not to have done, and there is no health in us,» and hear the Word of the Gospel, «There is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus,» we participate in the greatest of all therapies.

Here are ten things you might hear in a Sunday service which will clue you in that your church leadership fails to grasp our mission to enter the dark and dangerous places of this world with the Gospel of the Kingdom or the fact the church is something we are, not something we attend.

I personally don't believe that those who have never heard the gospel wind up in hell.

Your salvation and discipleship are not dependent on whether the preacher from whom you heard the Gospel is genuine, but rather on whether the Gospel itself is genuine.