Quotes About Gospel

Nor can we as individuals assume that the offer of the gospel will be forever open to us. Even if our lives are spared, yet it is possible to become hardened to the gospel to such a point that there is no return. We become so inured in our pride that we are deaf to the only good news that can save us. God's only word to us is then imminent and comprehensive doom.

1. My contention is that "Surah" is an arabicized form of the Hebrew name 171'01 B' surah, that is, Gospel, given to the Christian Gospels during the early centuries of Christianity and adopted in the Qur'an for "revelation.

Sadly, some twist the Gospel into "this for that," which is no gospel at all. But God doesn't work in this way. His Gospel is truly Good News for all people. It is not an "if-then" gospel, but rather a "since-then" Gospel, or even more a "because-therefore" Gospel!

Church teaching misled people into believing that by following such regulations they merited God's grace and favor. Such a theory is entirely contrary to the Gospel, overturns the all-sufficient merit of Jesus Christ, and replaces Him with human works

Satan goes to church more than anybody else because he knows that, at a particular time and place, a corrupt church can devastate the cause of the gospel.

The longer ending of Mark (16:9-20) is almost certainly not what Mark wrote. The two oldest and most reliable copies of the Gospel do not contain it (Codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus). The style is quite different from the rest of Mark's Gospel, and some of the theology is potentially both heretical and fatal (see v. 18)!

Natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey are the worst kind of crises for people like Mr. Trump and Mr. Osteen, who purvey their own versions of the prosperity gospel. This is a belief that says if you think positively and make affirmations, God will reward you with financial success and good health.

One of the most persistent images in American urbanism is that of the proverbial city on a hill, as first envisioned on these shores by the Puritan John Winthrop, via the Gospel according to Saint Matthew.

I've never got the vibe that they would do a gospel song. 'Cause when they talking about doing another Geto Boys album I said I would do it if I could rap like I'm rapping on my gospel album, I didn't get a whole lot of cosigning on that from all the political parties concerned.

The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.

If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.

Jesus reveals who He is through the living Word.

As Jane Lampman, who wrote the Monitor article, put it, "The Gospel, some evangelicals are quick to point out, teaches that the line separating good and evil runs not between nations, but inside every human heart."20

To let the gospel of Jesus shape how we work means to heed the influence of both the psychological idols within our hearts as well as the sociological idols in our culture and profession.

God saved you not because you have been good, but he sovereignly arranged for you to hear the gospel and regenerated you.

The evil disposition of the unregenerate mind prevents a person from assenting to the gospel regardless of the preacher's persuasiveness.

Without God's power to "compel" or to change the will, no one would decide to accept the gospel of Jesus Christ.

And let us also rebuke those who claim to be Christians, but who oppose the love that the Word of God commands. They hinder the progress of the gospel, and of truth and holiness.

Repent now, believe the gospel, and you will be saved. For if Christ is so firm with his church, what do you think he will do to you, if you fail to repent (1 Peter 4:17)?

God has made a point of preventing non-Christians from knowing him through their own wisdom.

We preach the gospel so that, in obedience to God's command and foreordination, those who are "appointed for eternal life" (Acts 13:48) will come to Christ, and not because they will be damned without us.

Rather, whoever believes the gospel does so only because God chooses to save him, to change his inner nature, and to produce faith in him.

Faith in the gospel in no way comes from the person himself – the understanding is sovereignly granted by God as he removes the blindness from the mind and enlightens it, and the willful assent is produced in him by God's power, as a gift that he gives only to those whom he has chosen.

The gospel never claims to produce perfect people in this life, and these individuals might or might not be genuine believers in the first place.