"To believe the gospel" means accepting and having faith in the message or teachings of the gospel, which is the good news about Jesus Christ and his salvation.
Full definition
he that does not
believe the gospel of Jesus will not line up to the word of God and they sure wont be baptized.
This is a clear reference to those who
believed the Gospel message and were saved, but did not maintain their relationship with God and therefore lost their salvation.
If we
really believe the Gospel, we ought to join the shrinking ranks of those pushy parents who insist their children attend church with them.
Salvation is a gift that is offered through grace (Ephesians 2:8 - 9), but each person must
believe the gospel for it to be effective (Ephesians 1:13) otherwise they will experience Jehovah's wrath (John 3:36).
I think we are coddling a bunch of hell - bound people who have deluded themselves into thinking they
actually believe the Gospel message without making a single change to their lifestyle.
As far as they were concerned, unbelievers should not be told to repent and
believe the gospel since they were dead in trespasses and sin, and might not in any case belong to the elect.
I have
always believed the Gospel measage was really not meant to be complex (other wise I would not have been led to Christ many years ago).
In consequence, we preach as ourselves — we preach, that is, as modern men and women who
yet believe the gospel and who have been commissioned by the Church to preach it.
Furthermore, those
who believe the Gospel of John to be a true account of who Jesus was and what he was about know that it is the nature of this Gospel to set up an insider / outsider dichotomy among its readers (as Gail O'Day demonstrates in her work on irony in John).
because muhammad is a false prophet condemning all Muslims to hell lest they repent and
believe the gospel of Christ..
If she's a Christian, I would expect her to
believe the gospel.
If your not a Christan you need to know that Jesus said «The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and
believe the gospel».
I mean if you say something is true because
you believe the gospel writers, then what of the person who says the Koran is true because they believe Mohammad?
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We believe the gospel is the answer to brokenness, as well as building family and community and modelling Christian values.»
Stop telling people to
believe the gospel.
To blaspheme against the Holy Ghost is to refuse to
believe the Gospel.
If you are not really clear what the Gospel is, and if you don't really know how to share the Gospel with others, then in all likelihood, you don't really know if you yourself have
believed the Gospel, or if you have believed the right thing, or believed enough.
Repent and
believe the gospel!»
Third,
I believe the gospel narratives of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were much more subversive than McKnight wants to allow (pp. 80, 142 - 144).
Harrison, by a Lutheran reckoning, the command to «repent and
believe the gospel» is not itself a saving word — precisely because it is a command, which means it is law, not gospel.
When most people today hear the sentence «You must
believe the gospel to be saved» what actually goes through their mind is this: «Here are the things you must believe in order to go to heaven when you die» (And of course, everyone has a different idea about what we must believe).
This is a belief that you should be poor if
you believe the gospel message.
If
you believe the Gospel, it is crazy to not put that into action.
Once
you believe the gospel you are indwelt by God the Holy Spirit.
When Christ came to the nation of Israel, he said repent and
believe the gospel.
Loving others is a command from God, but like that of repent and
believe the gospel, in and of our selves we are completely unable to do so apart from the working of the Holy Spirit.