OK, everybody in the audience who says the Gospel of Jesus Christ is good news for you personally raise your hand.....ok, that looks like everyone. So that settles it, the Gospel = Good News....right?
I find it interesting that this is the definition favored by at least one bible dictionary, that is Easton's 1897 Bible dictionary. And I also find it to be the currency of most evangelicals who are out there preaching "the good news" to the lost.
But I've had in the back of my mind for several years the words of my pastor at Christ Cornerstone in Fort Mill that the Gospel, while truly life-giving to some, most certainly smells of death to those destined to perdition.
My question is, how many of you believe that we should see the Gospel of Jesus Christ as a doctrine that cuts both ways as opposed to regarding it exclusively as "good news".
Am I way off base here? Am I close but missing something?
thanks for all thoughts, especially from the T.E. among us,
Larry
I find it interesting that this is the definition favored by at least one bible dictionary, that is Easton's 1897 Bible dictionary. And I also find it to be the currency of most evangelicals who are out there preaching "the good news" to the lost.
But I've had in the back of my mind for several years the words of my pastor at Christ Cornerstone in Fort Mill that the Gospel, while truly life-giving to some, most certainly smells of death to those destined to perdition.
My question is, how many of you believe that we should see the Gospel of Jesus Christ as a doctrine that cuts both ways as opposed to regarding it exclusively as "good news".
Am I way off base here? Am I close but missing something?
thanks for all thoughts, especially from the T.E. among us,
Larry