Hearing non-believers summarize the gospel is the most painful experience known to man
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funny.
I feel the same way about a lot of Christians ๐
that can also be painful
My man! I actually ask folks to summarize the gospel quite often.
Back when I was just getting into the reformed faith, I started realizing that all the evanjellyfish around me had no idea what they believe, and so I started asking some folks to send me their answer to the question, "What is the gospel?" The responses were appalling! Went to the pastor and asked him why he doesn't preach Christ crucified on the regular, and he said, "Most of these folks have grown up in church, so they've already heard it enough. I am giving them 'meat' now, since they have moved beyond the milk."
I dropped the descriptions of the gospel on him that I had gathered from his congregation. The next week the sermon was Christ crucified.
NO ONE moves beyond the need to hear the gospel preached on the regular.
Now that I am an elder at my church, one of the questions I ask every time someone wants to become a member of our church is, "What is the gospel?" The answers have done nothing but reinforce my conviction that people need to keep hearing it.
canโt speak for all people, but from what Iโve seen in my life, seems like the simplicity of the gospel is offensive. humans seem to have an innate desire to earn things.
Iโm shocked the gospel would be described as โmilkโ and not โmeat!โ
I would think milk vs. meat has more to do with how deep into a subject you go rather than the subject itself. Even something โeveryone knowsโ has depth and opportunity for study. And especially things that โeveryone knowsโ need to be revisited to be clear theyโre really understood.
Besides, you have no idea when someone will be attending for the first time, or even thinking seriously about an issue for the first time. Not to mention children attending the church.
This was a church that shuffled all the children down to childcare services.
I never liked that even when I was a child
Same. Keep the kids in the main service with their parents.
Paul's epistles were intended to be read to the church, and there are instructions in them addressed to children. That would presuppose that the children would be present to hear them.
Thereโs a lot of assumption about what kids are able to understand that I think underestimates kids.
...when I came to YOU, brothers, I did not come with an extravagance of speech or of wisdom declaring the sacred secret of God to YOU. For I decided not to know anything among YOU except Jesus Christ, and him impaled. - 1Cor2:1,2
I love that this was written by an intellectual giant. ๐
The good news. A proclamation of the new King and Kingdom. What it has done already, what the King expects from us, and what it intends to do. Am i close?
my out of context comment was entirely unnecessary ๐คท
too real, how even reading this made me feel
