Quotes About Gospel

The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture of a fallen world in which there is a gospel of power.

The power of the gospel lies[...] in the powerful announcement that God is God, that Jesus is Lord, that the powers of evil have been defeated, that God's new world has begun.

The power of the gospel is the word of God . . . nobody needs a gospel if there's no judgment, or law, if God is not a God of judgment. If there is no such thing as hell, what good is the gospel?

To Influence Every Sphere Of Society Is To Engage The Power Of The Gospel

Do things that will get people asking questions, the answer to which is the Gospel.

Prayer is your way, often the only way, to water the harvest. By prayer you can bring the Holy Spirit's blessing on any gospel effort anywhere in the world.

A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.

The Lord speaks to us through the Scriptures and in our prayer. Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel.

Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.

God created the institution of human marriage to reflect, or mirror forth, this eternal union. In other words, human marriage exists to point men and angels to the eternal marriage of Christ and his church. The gospel made this divine marriage possible. Here is our point: human marriage exists to preach the gospel. It exists to illustrate the fruit that should follow the preaching of the gospel in the church. To

God created the institution of marriage to proclaim the gospel. Our children are the first audience impacted. God wants our children to see our marriages, behold the beauty of the gospel, and be irresistibly attracted.

Each layman must be his own apologist, responsible for his stewardship of the Gospel in his daily life and work.

the message or the word regarding His way is the gospel.

O Lord, give us grace not only to be hearers of the word, but also doers of the same; not only to love, but to live Thy gospel; not only to profess, but also to practice Thy blessed commandments, to the honor of Thy holy name. Amen. —THOMAS BECON (c. 1512–1567)

Contextualization in preaching is communicating the gospel message in ways that are understandable or appropriate to the listener's cultural context.

If we don't consider the gospel context of the Bible as a whole, even well-exegeted imperatives turn into moralism. And this fosters a legalistic culture in our churches.

Most churches are filled with people who love Jesus and are involved in every way that they feel capable. In reality, they are waiting for someone to invest in them for gospel work.

the gospel, the Christian faith, becomes the interpretive framework with which to make sense of all other knowledge and experience.

El descuido con respecto al Espíritu Santo es lo que hace que el evangelio, que es poderoso, se convierta en una noticia tan vieja como las antigüedades de un museo.

How can we win souls for Christ? We must continue to preach the gospel of salvation.

A lifetime is too meager a window to learn Christ and the mysteries of the gospel.

Saral came one day with a idea for drawing the women to hear the Gospel. She would teach them to knit with some pink wool she had been given, 'and they will love me more and like to listen when I talk about Jesus.' Amy could not say yes to that. She explained that the Gospel needed no such frills. It is the power of God for salvation....There was no need for tricks which might open houses...

The fixedness of the human mind is the 'wall of Jericho' to Gospel preaching. God must shake, or there will be no shaking.

You are an idealist, which means that you are destined to be disappointed, and perhaps even wounded. You seek a gospel of benevolence and miracle, which leaves no room for the sorrows of existence.