The gospel is not just the illustration (even the best illustration) of an idea. It is the story of actions by which the human situation is irreversibly changed.
There are many things about living the gospel of Jesus Christ that cannot be measured by that which is counted or charted in records of attendance.
People need a consistent explanation of the cross of Christ and what it accomplished. Christ's atoning work is the centerpiece of the gospel and the only solution for humanity's estrangement from our Creator.
There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.
Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade'
Our work is to preach the gospel and we must not be sidetracked.
If the gospel of Jesus Christ is not at the center of a wedding ceremony, it is likely not going to be at the center of the marriage. This would be a grave mistake, however, as marriage itself is designed to be a great reflector of that gospel.
The gospel tells that our Judge has become our Savior.
Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without heart-change will be superficial and fleeting… We can only change permanently as we take the gospel more deeply into our understanding and into our hearts. We must feed on the gospel, as it were, digesting it and making it part of ourselves. That is how we grow.
To assume the gospel in one generation is to lose it in the next.
The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.
Before all else, the Gospel invites us to respond to the God of love who saves us, to see God in others and to go forth from ourselves to seek the good of others.
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.
The gospel is good news to those who know they don't measure up. It's offensive to those who think they do.
The gospel preached during every television show is 'You only go around once in life, so get all the gusto you can. ' It is a statement about theology; it is a statement about beer. It's lousy beer and even worse theology.