What does the Gospel mean to you?
I hope I am not just a jumble of thoughts but a coherent messenger of the heart of God.
What does the gospel mean to you? I am not asking for the "correct" answer, if anything I am ultimately arguing that the "correct"answer is the wrong answer. What does the gospel mean to you, [insert your name here]? The next question is what can I do to help make the gospel a reality in your life?
I have been coming to some revelations of late and one of them is that I have my own understanding of the gospel. I have worked out my faith (Phil 2:12) and I have known what God requires of me for many many years but I believe I have been both overtly and covertly counseled against doing those things that the gospel requires of me. But the real question I am asking now is how many others are in the same boat and how many I have discouraged from persuing what God is calling them to.
What would it look like if we counseled people to do what they think God is calling them to instead of cautioning them away? What would it look like if we chose to stand on guard and bless someone when they chose to something "stupid" for God, caring more about their faith than the temporal concerns we caution them about?
How many great things could men and women have accomplished because they were motivated by the Gospel, as they understand it, but did not because someone counseled them away from the Gospel, as they understand it?
posted by rene the rugrat at 6:03 PM
1 Comments:
Amen! Shut up with Opinions! God called no man to tell another what to do after HE had already told him! CALLED him as a matter of fact; to what? That's not my business either. I was happy when i was a crazed spirit filled woman! It took a church to beat me up so badly that I'm ashamed I didn't speak to them in those tongues they only wanted once a month on that ONE Sunday nite at what THEY called "Special" Night... When I was doomed to die of cancer they said "she sinned" BUT GOD picked me up and placed me in HIS LAP for 6 months. GLORIOUS! Wish I could find myself there now. Leave the Translation to God! He knows it better! Earning some of those Titles would be nice too instead of handing them out & saying we prayed about it. (I'm okay. I'm not angry. I do not want to bash anyone that bashed me.) I forgave them a long time ago. Your right tho. We don't LISTEN enough or there would be more understanding in this world. It's time for the Sons of God to Stand Up and the Church to Look like the Church! and I mean the Pentecost Church...they looked drunk and talked funny but man did they do exploits!
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