T Quotes
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“The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.”
Source: Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City
“The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted.”
“The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties.”
Source: Fox's Book of Martyrs: A History of the Lives, Sufferings and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs
“The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.”
Source: The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
“The gospel impacts the way we do our work in ways that hopefully brings a greater flourishing to our world.”
“The Gospel is a declaration of something totally finished apart from our agreement or vote. Inside that declaration is an ongoing and relentless invitation to deepening relationship but any lack of belief or participation on our part has no power to negate the accomplished truth of that declaration.”
“The gospel is a declaration, not a debate.”
“The gospel is a divine doctrine.”
“The gospel is a gospel of giving and forgiving.”
Source: Collected Works Vol. 2
“The Gospel is a gospel of power or it is nothing at all.”
“The gospel is a holy doctrine for good conduct.”
“The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.”
“The gospel is a thing of joy. It provides us with a reason for gladness. Of course there are times of sorrow. Of course there are hours of concern and anxiety. We all worry. But the Lord has told us to lift our hearts and rejoice. I see so many people...who seem never to see the sunshine, but who constantly walk with storms under cloudy skies. Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.”
“The Gospel is a very dangerous idea. We have to see how much of that dangerous idea we can perform in our own lives. There is nothing innocuous or safe about the Gospel. Jesus did not get crucified because he was a nice man.”
“The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.”
“The gospel is about the goodness of God.”
“The gospel is an exclusive truth but it's the most inclusive exclusive truth in the world.”
“The Gospel is called the good news. My message is a message of hope, that's God's [message] for you.”
“The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.”
“The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.”
Source: Three-Score & Ten
“The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.”
“The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.”
“The gospel is good news only if it arrives in time.”
“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 is holy doctrine for good conduct.”
“The gospel is like a caged lion,' said the great baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. 'It does not need to be defended, it simply needs to be let out of it's cage' Today, the cage is our accommodation to the secular/sacred split that reduces Christianity to a matter of personal belief. To unlock the cage, we need to become utterly convinced that, as Francis Schaeffer said, Christianity is not merely religious truth, it is total truth- truth about the whole of reality.”
“The Gospel is like a caged lion. It does not need to be defended, it just needs to be let out of its cage.”
“The Gospel is like a caged lion; you don't have to defend it - just let it out of the cage.”
“The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it.”
“The gospel is meant to control and govern everything in our lives.”
Source: The Christ-Centred Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“The gospel is never about everybody else; it is always about you, about me. The gospel is never truth in general; it's always a truth in specific. The gospel is never a commentary on ideas or cultures or conditions; it's always about actual persons, actual pains, actual troubles, actual sin; you, me; who you are and what you've done; who I am and what I've done.”
Source: Leap over a wall: earthy spirituality for everyday Christians
“The gospel is never heard in isolation. It is always heard against the background of the cultural milieu in which one lives. A person raised in a cultural milieu in which Christianity is still seen as an intellectually viable option will display an openness to the gospel which a person who is secularized will not [as such] part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women.”
“The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.”
“The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.”
“The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.”
Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life
“The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.”
“The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.”
Source: Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi
“The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed only, but it is to be taken into life as a guide.”
“The Gospel is not a message of words, but an invitation to encounters.”
“The Gospel is not a picture of adoption, adoption is a picture of the Gospel.”
“The “Gospel” is not a sermon title or the name of a book in the Bible. The Gospel is the person of Jesus Christ and it is the power of God to bring people to salvation. Romans 1:16”
“The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths.”
Source: The Epistle to the Romans
“The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God.”
“The gospel is not about a lifestyle that we live, it's about the law-fulfilling life that Christ lived.”
“The gospel is not about choosing to follow advice; it's about being called to follow a King.”
Source: Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God
“The Gospel is not about going from bad to good, it's about going from dead to alive!”
“The Gospel is not about man searching for GOD but GOD reaching out to mankind!”
“The gospel is not about... pie-in-the-sky when they die. ... It is imperative that the up and coming generation recognize that the biblical Jesus was committed to the realization of a new social order in this world.... Becoming a Christian, therefore, is a call to social action.”
“The Gospel is not an alternative, it’s an ultimatum.”
“The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness.”
Source: A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures