Sentences with phrase «than the gospel»
The phrase "than the gospel" is an idiomatic expression that means something is more important or significant than anything else. Full definition
Got ta tell ya id rather believe in a fake gospel rather than no gospel at all!
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* I realize that some people leave my church because they believe I am not preaching the gospel, or the whole gospel, or something other than the gospel.
A gentle word or a generous tip are better than any gospel tract.
Do you think that modern evangelicals are salvation - focused rather than gospel - focused?
But what a curious reversal at Christian values to assume that his being healed by a Christian institution represents something other than the gospel.
Such solidarity, if it is to be true and enduring, must be grounded in nothing less than the gospel of Jesus Christ.
His substantial but not particularly newsy remarks were probably a little less than the Gospel from on high, but the crowd lapped it up.
He himself does not accept it, any more than the gospels ascribed to Peter, Thomas, Matthias, and others, or the Acts of Andrew and John.
Iwobi will be relegated to the bench now cos he has said anything other than the gospel according to... you know who.
Second, I view «justification» not as something different than the gospel, but a subset, or a subcategory of the gospel.
The prospertiy gospel — sounds more like the American dream than the gospel of Jesus Christ does it not?
He dispenses more law than gospel.
Two verses, Mark 14:28; 16:7, may be later even than the Gospel of Luke, though earlier than Matthew.
So we see that rather than the gospels contradicting each other, all of the accounts blended together give a fully picture of what went on that evening.
The praying man who seemingly resurrected West from the dead was none other than gospel music legend Kirk Franklin.
No one in his right senses denies the authenticity of most of the letters, or epistles, included in the New Testament, and several of these are considerably earlier documents than the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
No book in all the world makes this clearer than the Gospel of John.
Still, the Reformed tradition is much more diverse than The Gospel Coalition and I need to learn more about it.
It's a shame when people make the lesser bites (or no bites) of lesser snakes more important and more central to their ministry than the gospel.
When we use the Twelve as a weapon for fending off women from church leadership we align ourselves with the misapprehending disciples rather than the gospel proclaiming Christ.»
Here is a sobering statement by Hiebert: «As Christians, we are often unaware that we are shaped more by our contexts than the gospel (p. 83).»
But it is in no sense a biography of Confucius, much less so indeed than the gospels are of Jesus.
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.
If a church is spending more time on anything less than the gospel (whether modesty or some other topic) than I think it has gone astray.
It is no other than our Gospel according to Mark, to which we must give attention presently.
The true dilemma is with churches who preach the American dream rather than the gospel of Jesus.
But in terms of priorities, focus, and direction, assumed evangelicalism begins to give gradually increasing energy to concerns other than the gospel and key evangelical distinctives, to gradually elevate secondary issues to a primary level, to be increasingly worried about how it is perceived by others and to allow itself to be increasingly influenced both in content and method by the prevailing culture of the day.
They ought to blast the sick behavior of clerics, they ought to blast the fact that they have lost their moral authority, because they are more concerned in advancing a Marxist agenda, rather than the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
If we answer the question of «what is God like» with anything other than Jesus of Nazareth, we end with something less than the gospel.
God is already at work there through the law of creation that is other than the gospel.
It seems to me that we tend to centre our ministry on things like buildings, budgets, programs, personalities, politicians, Christian athletes or... a million things other than the gospel.
Almost a reverse - prosperity - Gospel that emphasizes the goodness of the poor over against the wealthy, which sounds to my capitalist sensibilities like class warfare rather than the Gospel.
I am saying that religion is — or can be — a «preparation for the gospel» rather than the gospel itself.
History has not been kind on attempts to enforce moral change via law rather than the gospel, such as Oliver Cromwell's puritanical society.
The Prosperity / Health & Wealth Gospel is much more effective at «church - building» than a Gospel that calls for a transformational change from predatory selfishness to unconditional kenotic love.
And if you think about it, a person has a more difficult time explaining romantic love, for instance, or beauty, or the Trinity, than the gospel of Jesus.
Yet this «mainstream» Christianity joke is more into trying sweep sin under the rug and focusing on junk like Chick - fil - a rather than the Gospel and the ONLY way.
Did this bear witness to whiteness rather than the Gospel?