The blues and gospel stuff seemed to go together.
I don't really know what the prosperity gospel is. The way I define it is that I believe God wants you to prosper in your health, in your family, in your relationships, in your business, and in your career. So I do. . . if that is the prosperity gospel, then I do believe that.
The Intelligent Design movement starts with the recognition that "In the beginning was the Word," and "In the beginning God created. " Establishing that point isn't enough, but it is absolutely essential to the rest of the gospel message.
Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.
Of course all advance depends upon money, when we depend upon paid workers for any advance. Teach men as one of their first lessons in the gospel that pastoral work and evangelistic work ought to be paid, and will they not believe it? They would all believe it if the Holy Ghost did not dispute our teaching. It is a powerful proof of the presence and grace of the Holy Ghost that they do not all believe it and act accordingly.
So the preacher of the gospel asks your prayers: and it is a part of the duties arising out of the relationship between Christian men that those who are taught should pray for those who teach God's Word.
Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel.
For this the Gospel offers us a serene way forward: using the three languages of the mind, heart and hands - and to use them in harmony. What you think, you must feel and put into effect. Your information comes down to your heart and you put it into practice. Harmoniously. What you think, you feel, and you do. Feel what you think and feel what you do. Do what you think and what you feel. The three languagesTo think. To feel. To do. And all in harmony.
You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.
We have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; but the Gospel of Christ may justly be ashamed of us.
William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when they are willing to face the same trials for the sake of commerce.
If we do not commend the Gospel to people by our holy walk and conversation, we shall not win them to Christ. Some little act of kindness will perhaps do more to influence them than any number of long sermons.
Preach the Gospel with your life.
The gospel destroys pride because it tells us we are so lost that Jesus had to die for us.
God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.
So it can be for us as we allow the stirrings of hope to motivate us to action; and then as we act so that our hope becomes faith, that faith gives us power and enthusiasm for the principles of the gospel, which leads us to further action. Soon, we are lifted out of the state of hopelessness, and we begin to aid those around us by working to make the world a better place, rather than languishing in misery watching the world go by without us.
The Gospel is a gospel of power or it is nothing at all.
The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.
Proclaiming the gospel to all mankind is a fundamental part of the mission of the Church.