[GonzoII]

"Yes, of course the Gospel of Jesus Christ is preached. But it's preached from the scriptures. Why is this such a hard concept??"

Because the Gospels didn't exist when the Apostles went out to preach, how could it?

[alancarp]

*Sigh* What we today call the Old Testament certainly did exist. That contained all of the prophecies of Christ, the foretelling of the Word coming to the Gentiles, and it is what Christ and the Apostles preached from. Quotes from the O.T. are commonplace in Matt/Mark/Luke/John/Acts.

The 'Gospel' is the good news that Christ has come, that there is forgiveness from sin through repentance, and that Christ made this possible via his substitutionary sacrifice - paying the penalty for my sin. The preaching of the time was that the Kingdom of God was here and all of the scriptures of that time were being fulfilled right in front of them.