Sentences with phrase «to understand the gospel»

It is too simple to suppose that these errors would all disappear if the churches better understood the gospel.

This religion has a problem understanding the gospel and how one is saved from hell.

First, people who argue that we must obey the Mosaic Law do not understand what Jesus Christ accomplished in His life, death, and resurrection, do not understand the Gospel of grace, and do not understand the difference between Israel and the Church.

I figured that some time after the initial meeting, he must have sat down and walked his new converts through the Romans Road, just to make sure they really understood the gospel in all of its soteriological glory.

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.

I have always understood the Gospel as being Good News for everyone, and that our role as believers and members of the Church is to welcome strangers, newcomers, and outsiders.

That is, he does not simply make the obvious point that the Old Testament is essential background for understanding the Gospel writers and their first - century contexts.

With all of this in mind, what Paul is saying is that nobody can understand the gospel unless they turn to the Holy Spirit for illumination and guidance.

Understanding the Gospel requires us to properly understand the key words and terms of the Gospel.

To properly understand the Gospel, we need to understand the biblical terms related to the gospel.

If he actually understood the gospel, he would understand, Jesus was NOT a capitalist.

When we forget this, we miss out on understanding the gospel and we set pastors up on pedestals; and when this happens it is dangerous for both the pastor and the church.

For the Christian who understands the gospel, everything is sacred.

Helping many people to understand the gospel treasure is no more a business for tyros than is delicate pastoral care under pain and suffering.

Thank you sir, you clearly understand the Gospel of Christ.

Or should we say as some have that Paul understood the gospel of grace better than Peter?.

and the gospel [while they may be justified, they have not understood the gospel] are 2 different things.

The church has misread Paul so severely, it seems, that no one fully understood the gospel from the time of the apostle to the time a certain British scholar started reading Paul in Greek in graduate school.

Understanding the gospel opened my eyes to other things that I couldn't see as well, like the world being round.»

But absent a narratable world, the church's hearers can not believe or even understand the gospel story — or any other momentous story.

Have such Christians really understood the gospel?

But if Braun meant that the one who had truly understood the gospel would in fact not come to church, then I think he was wrong.

By taking this course, you will come to better understand the Gospel and hundreds of Bible passages about the Gospel.

Ultimately, Contextualization in World Missions is a great primer and summary of issues related to contextualization, and I recommend it for anyone interested in learning more about this all - important topic for understanding the Gospel and applying it to the various cultural contexts in which we work and minister.

If you claim to be a Christian but can't preach that, it makes me think you don't understand the Gospel.

Evidently, you have never heard of John Newton — the former slave trader gave up that vocation upon coming to understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ, became a clergyman, and wrote the words of the great hymn «Amazing Grace» to celebrate and glorify God's unfathomable ability to FORGIVE — which hymn then became an anthem of the Christian anti-slavery movements in both Britain and the United States.

For pete's sake, do you think that you're supposed to know multiple languages as a prerequisite to understanding the gospel?

And frequently, it is helping them understand the Gospel and church teaching and then helping them to have a formed conscience and helping them to some sort of discernment — which is what the Pope is talking about.

Now I understood the gospel.

Wow, I only want to understand the gospel of Jesus Christ.

If I understand the gospel right, Jesus died for Michael Brown and Darren Wilson (his shooter); slaves and slave masters; the lynched and the lynch mob.

«United Methodists as a diverse people continue to strive for consensus in understanding the gospel....

The people that vote for him on these grounds are biblically illiterate and do not understand the gospel or the Bible, for example the common mistake that these folk make is to always rip some verse out of the old testament and use it to attack the christian faith.

Given this story, we have no reason to think this girl has really understood the gospel, let alone well enough to reject it decisively.

As you begin to understand the gospel, and how much you are loved and forgiven, you will then begin to find the freedom to live in this world as only you can live.

Here is a tiny bit of my story and I came to understand the gospel and the grace of God.

If they want to understand the gospel, all they need to do is turn to the Spirit of God for understanding, and he will remove the veil from their hearts and the blindness from their eyes so that they might be understand and obey the gospel of God.

These sorts of examples are found all over the place in the Bible, and the consistent message and expectation of biblical authors is that anyone and everyone can hear and understand the Gospel, and having heard, believe in Jesus for eternal life.

Wonderful, but based on surveys done with over 18,000 people in Evangelical / Fundamental churches only a little more than half the people in these churches knows and understands teh gospel.

In a somewhat broader way, Troeger explores the «rim of normative consciousness» and, following Newbigin, calls for the creation of a whole new framework within which to understand the gospel.

(25) More recent writers have emphasized even more the ways in which the political, economic, social, and theological positions of interpreters function as vested interests that shade the way in which people read the biblical text and the way in which they understand the gospel.

I'd love to see it as the principal means by which we understand the Gospel and understand the Church.

Have they really understood the gospel?