Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Upholding the Old and True Gospel

Kevin DeYoung has a great post regarding the "New Gospel" circulating and it's implications on truly reaching people for Christ. He ends with a plea stating:

Please, please, please, if you are enamored with the New Gospel or anything like it, consider if you are really being fair with your fellow Christians in always throwing them under the bus. Consider if you are preaching like Jesus did, who called people, not first of all to a way of life, but to repent and believe (Mark 1:15). And as me and my friends consider if we lack the necessary patience and humility to speak tenderly with non-Christians, consider if your God is a lopsided cartoon God who never takes offense at sin (because sin is more than just un-neighborliness) and never pours out wrath (except for the occasional judgment against the judgmental). Consider if you are giving due attention to the cross and the Lamb of God who died there to take away the sin of the world. Consider if your explanation of the Christian message sounds anything like what we hear from the Apostles in the book of Acts when they engage the world.

This is no small issue. And it is not just a matter of emphasis. The New Gospel will not sustain the church. It cannot change the heart. And it does not save.
I encourage you to read the rest of the post and I hope it challenges and encourages your heart to remain steadfast to the Gospel as much as it did mine.

1 comments:

Daniel November 29, 2009 at 8:55 PM  

There is no Gospel but the Gospel --the old, faithful, beautiful Gospel of Jesus Christ and Him crucified for sinners like me. Let's stand on this amazing truth.

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