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9th October 2006, 04:51 AM

I would say 95% of Christians "tone down" the Gospel on a regular basis in order to avoid "offending" people. We cringe at the thought of sounding "intolerant." Some people claim we must water down the Gospel in order to draw in the unbelievers. That is to say, if we preach the Bible, they'll be "turned off." Here is my response to such heresy:

If we water down the Gospel in order to draw people into Christianity, it won't be Christianity anymore. It will be another gospel, and those people we "draw in" will be deceived by our false gospel, and will surely be condemned as a result.

Do we want to be responsible for such a thing?

Why not preach the truth boldly, and leave the rest to the sovereign God? :thumbsup:

Why do we avoid preaching about the Judgement and the Lake of Fire when such events/places are BIBLICAL FACT?

IF WE REALLY LOVE UNBELIEVERS AS WE CLAIM TO, IS IT NOT OUR OBLIGATION TO WARN THEM ABOUT HELL? :amen:

tamtam92

9th October 2006, 11:03 AM

:amen:

I totally agree with you. The narrow way is narrow, we can't change it.

Nitescape

15th October 2006, 07:45 PM

I think you would do best to read this and then think about what Paul is saying.

1 Cor 9:16-24

In brotherly love,

No Swansong

21st October 2006, 06:11 AM

Thread closed for review.

No Swansong

24th October 2006, 04:33 AM

This thread is being re-opened. I would like to remind our non-Fundamentalist bretheren that we welcome them to the Fundamentalist Churchs forum for fellowship and to ask questions. However according to CF rule 1.4 they may not debate.

hindsey

1st November 2006, 03:50 PM

I think you would do best to read this and then think about what Paul is saying.

1 Cor 9:16-24

In brotherly love,
I agree with Paul - what does the Scripture there have to do with the fact that people in the church today do not present the gospel that Paul was presenting?

holo

2nd November 2006, 06:16 AM

What is the gospel?

MatthewDiscipleofGod

2nd November 2006, 08:52 AM

hindsey

2nd November 2006, 09:04 AM

That we all are bad people with a sin nature. That none of our "good works" will get us into Heaven. That Jesus died for our sins and that it is only repenting and putting our faith in him as our Lord and Savior that we can we go to Heaven.

Amen to that, if I could break it down a little though:

THE PREDICAMENT:
"That we all are bad people with a sin nature. That none of our 'good works' will get us into Heaven."

THE GOSPEL (Good News):
"That Jesus died for our sins..." That is, by His grace, He afforded us a way to receive forgiveness of our sin nature.

THE RESULT:
"That it is only repenting and putting our faith in him as Lord and Savior that we can go to Heaven."

MatthewDiscipleofGod

2nd November 2006, 09:13 AM

Thanks for pointing that out. The good news is Jesus dying for us. The sin part is the predicament. One thing I believe us Christians need to work at is getting people to understand sin more when witnessing to nonbelievers. So many believe that they are good people and that if there is a Heaven they would be going there because of it.

Amen to that, if I could break it down a little though:

THE PREDICAMENT:
"That we all are bad people with a sin nature. That none of our 'good works' will get us into Heaven."

THE GOSPEL (Good News):
"That Jesus died for our sins..." That is, by His grace, He afforded us a way to receive forgiveness of our sin nature.

THE RESULT:
"That it is only repenting and putting our faith in him as Lord and Savior that we can go to Heaven."

mark kennedy

3rd November 2006, 09:08 PM

[SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]I would say 95% of Christians "tone down" the Gospel on a regular basis in order to avoid "offending" people. We cringe at the thought of sounding "intolerant." Some people claim we must water down the Gospel in order to draw in the unbelievers. That is to say, if we preach the Bible, they'll be "turned off." Here is my response to such heresy:

The message of the cross has allways been to whosoever will. One of the most important elements of the Gospel it that there is no difference, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. It is in fact God's grace that propelles us into service because where offense did increase God's grace did much more increase. Jesus had a crowd of followers who only sought him to fill their bellys but when he told then they must believe in him they turned and followed him no more:

"It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh 22 is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you who do not believe." Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe and the one who would betray him. And he said, "For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father." As a result of this, many (of) his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him.Jesus then said to the Twelve, "Do you also want to leave?" Simon Peter answered him, "Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God." (John 6:63-69)

If we water down the Gospel in order to draw people into Christianity, it won't be Christianity anymore. It will be another gospel, and those people we "draw in" will be deceived by our false gospel, and will surely be condemned as a result.

That could be a lot of things; the social gospel, legalism, licenciousness and worldly philosophies loosely disguised as Christian. The Gospel is Christ and Him crucified, that's what seperates the spiritual sheep from the goats. Unbelievers don't want anything to do with the cross, conviction for sin or the Lordshop of Christ.

Do we want to be responsible for such a thing?

Why not preach the truth boldly, and leave the rest to the sovereign God? :thumbsup:

Why do we avoid preaching about the Judgement and the Lake of Fire when such events/places are BIBLICAL FACT?

Pedition is one of the implications of the Gospel but you can preach the reality of Hell and never mention the Gospel once.

IF WE REALLY LOVE UNBELIEVERS AS WE CLAIM TO, IS IT NOT OUR OBLIGATION TO WARN THEM ABOUT HELL? :amen:

If we really love the lost we teach them salvation through the sacrifice of the Son of God who loved us and gave himself for us. We teach them that we died with Christ and our life was hidden with God in Him. We can do no more or less then preach the cross.

By the way, did you ever notice that Jesus is the only one in the Bible that spoke of Hell? Want to know why? He was the only one who knew anything about it.

Grace and peace,
Mark