{"id":4502,"date":"2014-10-15T08:08:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T05:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?p=4502"},"modified":"2014-10-15T08:08:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T05:08:51","slug":"this-sermon-made-me-rethink-how-i-share-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/this-sermon-made-me-rethink-how-i-share-the-gospel\/","title":{"rendered":"This Sermon Made Me Rethink How I Share the Gospel!"},"content":{"rendered":"

You need to set aside 44 minutes and listen to this sermon!<\/a><\/span>\u00a0It seriously made me rethink how I communicate the Gospel.<\/p>\n

I know that seems like a lot of time but I believe this is an important message that Christians need to hear.<\/p>\n

Jeff Durbin is the president of Apologia Ministries which includes Apologia Radio.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"shocker<\/a>As a missionary I’m in the business of evangelism! Nevertheless this sermon was a good wake up call for me personally.<\/p>\n

It’s so easy to fall into the trap of softening the gospel for the sake of numbers. It’s so easy to excuse our lack of a clear gospel message with the fact that we are building relationships and doing “lifestyle evangelism.”<\/p>\n

I listened to this sermon twice and some parts more than twice. I pulled out a few quotes below.<\/p>\n

“The Good News is not good advice, the Good News is not Jesus asking you to give him a chance or a try!”<\/p>\n

“Jesus doesn’t come to make your life simply better!”<\/p>\n

“The message of the Gospel always came with a call to repentance and faith, not a try Jesus!”<\/p>\n

“Perhaps the world thinks our message is irrelevant because it is irrelevant, when we give them the idea that Jesus is something you simply add to your story.”<\/p>\n

“If we don’t go to the hard places, people don’t hear the gospel.”<\/p>\n

“A bold proclamation of the faith that gets in the face of culture and sacrifices everything.”<\/p>\n

“The story of the Gospel always came with a reminder of sin.”<\/p>\n

“We soften our message, we soften our blow for the sake of numbers.”<\/p>\n

“Jesus would fail every single seminary course on evangelism.”<\/p>\n

“Jesus is the master of the church shrinkage movement.”<\/p>\n

“Jesus talked about coming to die!”<\/p>\n

“We don’t need people to fill a spot on a stage, we need people who are ready to give their lives in missionary sacrifice and to die for the sake of the Gospel!”<\/p>\n

“If you come to serve Jesus in ministry don’t come for the sake of the stuff and the building, come for the sake of the lives of the lost.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Question: How can we make the preaching of the Gospel in our lives and in our churches look more like Jesus’ and Paul’s preaching of the Gospel?<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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