Churches who teach the only gospel is salvation while ignoring or denying the Gospel that Jesus claimed as His mission--to usher in the Kingdom of God on earth--are teaching an incomplete gospel and not the complete Gospel of Jesus, the Christ.
Western Christians tend to think of "going to heaven" or "going to hell" as the framework for the Gospel, but the Bible is not about us going somewhere, but the Creator God coming to live with us.
Making a list of which sinners are welcome in the church and which sinners are not goes against the teaching of the Gospel.
If your Gospel dehumanizes people in order to save them, it's not Good News, it's propaganda. Not in service of their well being, but in establishment of your privilege. Not to give cause to love them, but to give reason for your hatred.
I’m so weary of the kind of Christianity that is so convinced it is going extinct that it is willing to abandon all the teachings of Jesus in order to “win” by “any means necessary.” This is not only a belief deeply rooted in fear, it is also a belief that deeply...
I dislike your speaking of yourselves as though you were the only [ones] who know and taught the Gospel; ...But what I most dislike is your littleness of love...your want [lack] of union...your want of meekness, gentleness, long suffering; your impatience of...
Matthew writes: “[Herod] sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under.” Jesus is born, but in Flannery O’Connor’s words, “at a devastating price.” No one knows how many children died; the New Testament alone documents the...
The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred proof Grace--bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one...
The whole message of the Gospel is this: Become like Jesus.
I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry...