Do we complicate the Gospel for a dying world?
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What do you mean by ‘complicate’ ?
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No, getting saved is as easy as walking through a door. And Jesus is the door.
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The true gospel, Christ centered, cannot be complicated but people replace it with a man centered gospel. Jesus is enough.
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I believe we do, but you’d also have to be more specific. There ARE pulpits and believers that do not complicate it so we must be fair in our assessment.
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You can’t take a light approach to the gospel because that’s when people start injecting their worldly views to it, until the gospel is no more.
See this:
Matthew 7:13-14
“Enter by the NARROW gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. FOR THE GATE IS NARROW AND THE WAY IS HARD THAT LEADS TO LIFE, and those who find it are few.” -
Yes, I definitely think we do. The gospel is that Jesus has saved us single handedly. Anything more complicated than that and we’ve already lost the thread
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Do we know the gospel in it’s entirely and are we courageous enough to share it with a dying world?
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I think God expects us to defend the fact that we are followers of Jesus and what he has done for us.
We must remember that many times—most times—the Lord works in spite of us. -
Yes
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Yes!
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We don’t even give them the Gospel today! I haven’t heard a good sermon on the gospel in a long time! A clear cut concise gospel message!
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I think adapt would be better said. Not to the point that you sell the farm. But Peter and Paul had 2 different ministries for 2 diferent groups of people. Same thing can be said throughout all of church history.
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Yes, definitely.
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The way we say it is variable. The thing said is always: Confess with your mouth Master Jesus, because with the mouth confession is made to salvation. We do this because we believe that Jesus died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, and He was buried, and He rose again from the dead on the third day, according to the Scriptures, and He was seen afterward by Peter, then by the Twelve Apostles. After that, He was seen by more than five hundred brothers at once, of whom the greater part remained to the time when Paul recorded this, although some of them were fallen asleep then. After that, he was seen of James, and then by all the apostles. And last of all he was seen by Paul also, as of one born out of due time. Then, when we believe God raised Him from the dead, our belief in the Resurrection of Christ leads to righteousness. Doing Romans 10:9a & Romans 10:10b, due to believing 1 Corinthians 15:1-8, results in Romans 10:9b & Romans 10:10a. Paul became like whomever he talked to, always in order to get them to understand the same thing (1 Corinthians 9:22).
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