"To hear the gospel" means to listen to and understand the teachings and good news of Jesus Christ, as described in the Bible.
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Local pastors involved emphasize the importance of gathering as a Christian community and
hearing the gospel message proclaimed on such a large scale.
And in a thoroughly secular culture, the chances of
ever hearing the gospel — let alone believing it — were incredibly slim.
He does not condemn anyone for not having been born in the right part of the world, or for
not hearing the gospel.
This witness is absolutely necessary to our faith, because apart from it we could not have
heard the gospel at all.
I lived in a very secular culture, where the chances of me
ever hearing the gospel, let alone believing it, were extremely slim.
I'm thankful that many people
heard the gospel in mainline churches that were reenergized by the charismatic movement.
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.
At the time I thought: «I'll go back to good people, Christian people, but dispersed and relatively directionless people, who
hear the gospel as but one element competing for their attention.
I am a Baptist because it was through the witness of a small Baptist church that I
first heard the gospel of Jesus Christ.
In hindsight, I feel like I endured four years of Señora Nicora, our arduous Spanish teacher, in order to
hear the gospel from this gentleman.
Billy Graham has preached to tens of millions of people face - to - face, with some estimates saying more than two billion people in total have
heard the Gospel through his minstry.
The event drew an enthusiastic crowd of entrepreneurs, investors, and several hundred others interested in
hearing the gospel straight from one of venture capital's leading apostles.
But it is through preaching that we get our marching orders, it is through preaching that the lost
world hears the gospel so they can be transferred from the side of the enemy and join our side, the side of our victorious Jesus Christ.
They're going to
hear the gospel much clearer from Tyson Fury, someone they can identify with, and has behaviour, language and culture closer to theirs, and who is willing to very loudly and boldly proclaim that he loves and needs Jesus.
I'm not saying that all people who see signs and wonders become Christians, just as not all people who
hear the Gospel become Christians.
If someone who knew nothing about the
Lord heard the Gospel and was saved, they would read Acts and they would do exactly what it says Paul, and the rest of the Apostles, did.
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.
Now, there are many who
hear the Gospel often but care little for it because they have not the spirit of Christ.
That's why Jesus uses hyperbole: to help the
disciples hear the gospel of God's love indifferent ways, through different experiences, with different language and images.
The kind of Christian which pleases God is that one which
thoughtfully hears the gospel, understands its implications, and then consistently grows and matures, and which bears fruit as a result.
I decided to return to the Bible study the following week and the next, and I began to
hear the gospel for the first time.
A former gang enforcer, Mr Lawson, who became a Christian while in jail, said it was «essential» inmates at Lewis
Prison heard the Gospel.
With reference to the dramatis personae of the critical incident, the question is: «Granted that the chaplain and Mrs. B. heard one another, did they, together,
also hear the gospel?»
In 1968, Uppsala delegates proposed to «let the world establish the agenda» while at the same time turning a deaf ear to the question «What about the two billion (who, it was reckoned, had not
yet heard the gospel)?»
Saturday night found him m a region of the Cumberland Mountains, «where there was no gospel minister for many miles around, and where, as I learned, many of the scattered population had never
heard a gospel sermon in all their lives, and where the inhabitants knew no Sabbath only to hunt, and visit, drink and dance.»
The problem is compounded among Christians by the fact that many who did not think they wanted to
hear the gospel find in it, when they do hear it, just what Christians have claimed.
Referring to a recent benefit for school choice legislation in Greensboro that was organized by Parents for Educational Freedom NC, Forte - Durham said «the 3,000 people who came to Greensboro came to
hear the gospel singer,» and did not support school vouchers.
Hyper «Calvinists also rejected «duty «faith,» the teaching that unconverted sinners who
hear the gospel proclaimed have a duty to repent and believe in Jesus Christ.
The first man might not be able to
hear the gospel because of his self - righteousness; the second man's meanings may open his ears so that he begins to understand the gospel in real depth.