Say what you please, it all boils down to one thing.
“What’s that?”
The fact that some of us are tired of hearing weak, feeble presentations of the gospel that sometimes come even from those we respect in other ways.
“Such as?”
Such as ‘Take Jesus into your heart.’ Show me anything comparable to that in Scripture!
“OK. What else?”
‘Let me share Jesus with you.’ Or the bare, ‘Trust Jesus as your Savior’ and the lot. Many of them present Jesus as an add-on Who merely makes life more pleasant.
“Well . . . “
No ‘Wells’ about it—that’s not preaching the gospel.
“OK, then, how do you preach it?”
The way that Paul did. Listen to his words in I Corinthians 15: 1-3:
This is the good news that I preached to you by which you were saved. . . How that Christ died for our sins in agreement with the Scriptures, that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day in agreement with the Scriptures.
When he told them that this was the good news he preached, here is what his message was:
Good news. News has to do with something already accomplished.
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