What Gospel are you Presenting.

Is the gospel presentation really about instilling terror in people? 

To present the Gospel in this way fuels the lie that Jesus did not complete the work the Father sent Him to do. Fear-mongering to instill fear and terror in people met its end through the the completed work of Christ on the cross and His giving of His Gospel of Grace and Love. There is no room for religious fear mongering by man-appointed religious gurus in the Gospel presentation. Perfect love and fear do not balance each other out, but cancel each other out. If you tolerate fear you cannot experience perfect love, but if you embrace perfect love, terrorizing fear is eradicated. 

Adam Clarke wrote and I quote:

“As he is now made a partaker of his Spirit, and carries a sense of the Divine approbation in his conscience, God has nothing of the fear that produces terror or brings torment. The perfect love... that fullness of love, which people have received, casteth out fear...removes all terror relative judgment and wrath. And as it is inconsistent with the gracious design of God to have his family members miserable, and as man cannot be unhappy whose heart is full of the love of his God, this love must necessarily exclude the fear of terror. Fear brings torment, and hence is inconsistent with that happiness which a man must have who continually enjoys the approbation of his God.” End quote.

Don't let religious teachers quote poorly interpreted scriptures to you about the "fear of the Lord" being the "beginning of wisdom" without calling them out for their blatant misuse of scripture. Of course, we know that fear, in such contexts, mean awe and reverence, not bone chilling, spine tingling, hell dreading terror. That sort of fear has no place in grace living, and when it's given place our expression of the Gospel is polluted. We must embrace the heart of our loving Father, and refuse to dance to music of the fear-mongering mongrels. The national anthem of the Gospel we are to present is "God is Love", and this Love drives out fear. When we bow to religious fear-mongering we are allowing ourselves to be dominated by a foreign usurper.

Fear not, for I am with you", "I will never leave you or forsake you", Live in His perfect love. Anything less than this cannot rightly be called living the Gospel of Grace.

Comments

  1. Hubert MoulandMarch 11, 2014 at 12:46 PM

    I believe the Apostle Paul rather than the liberal theologians of our day. He said in 2Cor. 5:9-11
    9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

    10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

    11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men;

    Paul is speaking this to Christians to make sure that our works are acceptable to God or else we will suffer His judgment in regard to our works not our salvation.

    There are what I call tangent preachers. They like to go off on a tangent. It could be a love tangent, grace tangent, prophecy tangent, healing tangent.

    But I am looking for preachers today that will preach the whole counsel of God. They are hard to find but God still have some that have not bowed their knee to Baal. (Acts. 20:27) What whole counsel of God did Paul preach? He preached love of God, grace of God, prophecy, heaven, wrath of God, terror of Lord and much more.

    So to answer your question What gospel are you presenting? I am presenting the same gospel that Paul preached, the whole counsel of God and as a result I will be pure from the blood of all men.

    Acts 20: 26 Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.

    27 For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

    28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

    29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
    Paul warns those in charge over their sheep not to just preach a certain tangent but to feed them with the whole counsel of God. We cant live of tangents.

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