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The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited
EVANGELICALISM IS A GIFT to the church and the world. One of evangelicalism’s most precious convictions, one that I hold dear, is that each person must be born again or be saved. This conviction is established on nearly every page of the Gospels, it can be found in each of the sermons in the book of Acts, and it resonates under and on the pages of
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Jonathan Simcoe added 9mo ago
The widespread assumption that church bodies can baptize infants and then automatically catechize those babies into the faith when they are preteens or early teens has been challenged by evangelicalism’s stubborn commitment to make a personal decision about Jesus Christ.
from The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited by N. T. Wright
Jonathan Simcoe added 9mo ago
“For most American Christians, the gospel is about getting my sins forgiven so I can go to heaven when I die.”
from The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited by N. T. Wright
Jonathan Simcoe added 9mo ago
EVANGELICALISM IS A GIFT to the church and the world. One of evangelicalism’s most precious convictions, one that I hold dear, is that each person must be born again or be saved. This conviction is established on nearly every page of the Gospels, it can be found in each of the sermons in the book of Acts, and it resonates under and on the pages of
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Jonathan Simcoe added 8mo ago
We can’t keep trying to improve the mechanics of the system because they’re not the problem. The problem is that the system is doing what it should do because it is energized by a badly shaped gospel.
from The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited by N. T. Wright
Jonathan Simcoe added 8mo ago
Jonathan Simcoe added 8mo ago
Weird flex, but ok.At the most conservative of estimates, we lose at least 50 percent of those who make decisions. We cannot help but conclude that making a decision is not the vital element that leads to a life of discipleship. Much higher correlations can be found between routine Sunday school participation, youth group participation, and families that nurture one
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Jonathan Simcoe added 9mo ago
I have heard numbers as high as 75 percent of Americans have made some kind of decision to accept Christ, but statistics also show that only about 25 percent of Americans go to church regularly.
from The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited by N. T. Wright
Jonathan Simcoe added 9mo ago
What is the gospel?
from The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited by N. T. Wright
Jonathan Simcoe added 9mo ago