Posted on 10/20/2014 8:40:21 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
"No zeal for the lost, no hunger for the Word, no burden to pray...strangers to holiness." This describes a large number of the people who sit in our church pews today. This is the result of our man-centered gospel which is being served up in our pulpits. We have multitudes of lukewarm Christians with a false sense of security regarding their salvation. This man-centered gospel also has a massive casualty rate. It's producing 90 backsliders per 100 decisions. These people are not really backsliders. I would like to suggest they have never slidden forward. These people have not been warned of the coming wrath...
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Thanks for posting. Love the tracts this ministry offers... Time to restock!
What is “ Man centered gospel “ ?
A gosple that glorifies man in his efforts in doing good deeds , keeping , the commandment in hopes if gaining a few points with God to earn his salvation apart from the only way of salvation in Jesus Christ bought and paid for by his blood ?
The only souls who should fear God and his wrath, hell and damnation are those who reject God’s free offer of salvation in his son Jesus Christ who died in our stead as our substitutional sacrifice in our place.
The only way of salvation that God has ordained is through faith alone in Jesus Christ by God’s free grace by the blood of Christ.
St. Paul said ( check it out, its there ) in the book of Galations that no man is justified in the sight of God by the law.
If anyone could have been able to save them selves by keeping the law, there would have been no need of a savoir.
Jesus Christ is the totality, the fulfillment of all the law, those who placed their trust and faith in him have already fulfilled the law in Jesus Christ for they have justified by faith in Christ.
I listened for about 30 minutes and did not get much out of it.
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I listened to all of it and got a lot out of it!
Thanks for posting!
Outstanding reply.
I did Living Waters videos for my last Sunday School class (Senior High). The kids were not impressed but they tend to take things in without comment.
I personally think it is a good fresh approach although we will differ on theology. Ray Comfort eschews the Sinners Prayer but seems to push towards it.
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I will agree with you, to a point. It took me some time as a Christian to stop trying to earn salvation even though I understood and agreed with the Gospel. But not every one is in the same place. Today we’re bombarded with secular humanism and its atheist perspective that we’re all basically good and there’s nothing to fear of God or what happens in any afterlife. All you have to do is look at entertainment and the internet and you see that people are largely taken over by the idea that they can be their own gods. Many are so lost that they are nearly hardened to sin and have no idea that they’re morally confused. The Bible does say that the law is a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Its purpose is to show us our need for God’s grace - that we’ve sinned against God and need to receive His forgiveness.
I never heard that one before. Excellent image it conjures up.
I think that something that we all struggle with and there's evidence in Scripture that even back then, people struggled with it. Paul's letter to the Galatians testifies to that. Chapter 3 especially.
But praise God that he knows our frame and remembers that we are dust. (Psalm 103)
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