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Posted on January 30th, 2009 by Brian Sparks.
Categories: Discipleship, Masterlife.
The gospel which we have in the Bible is the gospel of the Kingdom of God. It presents Jesus as king, as Lord, as the maximum authority. Jesus is at the very center. The gospel of the Kingdom is a Christ-centered gospel.
But in recent centuries we have been hearing another gospel-a man-centered, human gospel. It is the gospel of the big offer. The gospel of the hot sale. The gospel of the irresistible special deal…We have told people, “If you accept Jesus, you will have joy, you will have peace, health, prosperity…If you give Jesus ten dollars, you will get twenty dollars back.”…We are always appealing to man’s interests. Jesus is the Savior, the Healer, and the King coming for me. Me is the center of our gospel.
We take all the verses we like, all the verses that offer something or promise something-John 3:16, John 5:24, and so forth - and we make a systematic theology from these verses, while we forget the other verses that present the demands of Jesus Christ…Who said we were allowed to present only one side of Jesus?…He is our Savior and our Healer, true. But we cannot cut Jesus Christ into pieces and take only the piece we like the best.
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