rather, sanctify Christ, as Lord, in your heart, always ready to answer to all those who ask you for the reason for the hope in you (1 Peter 3:15).
In this video, Paul Washer and Scott Brown discuss how we should explain the gospel to an uns reversed person. Where to begin?Here are some questions clarified in the video.
- SCOTT BROWN: Let’s talk a little bit about the gospel message.
- Talk about doctrine.
- The effect of doctrine.
- Or the lack of a strong doctrine in sharing the gospel.
- I believe that one of the things we all recognize and it is terrifying the number of people in the church.
- Who participate in the Lord’s table.
- Listen to preaching.
- Are members of local churches.
- But they cannot explain the gospel to you and you must ask yourself: have they embraced the truth?Gospel or not? In my experience.
- People often forget repentance and resurrection.
- When I ask a Christian who professes.
- “Can you explain the gospel to me?Tell me what you’d say to a person.
- They almost always leave those two so I just want to talk a little bit about the gospel message.
- So how would you explain the message of the gospel to me if it were not converted?.
PAUL WASHER: In this age of skepticism, I would begin with the simple truth that, “Do you hear?I’m going to tell you something I believe with all my heart that’s true. That doesn’t make it true. But just to level it up, I want you to know that there’s something I can accuse myself of as a Christian. presupposment, how do you assume there is a God?If we realize that’s what you’re doing, what are you accusing me of?Now let me share with you the worldview I see in the Bible and, if you wish, share with me your worldview and let’s see which one really works. Does this give me an open door? budget apologetics, not sitting there for two hours discussing whether God exists or not. It gives me an open door to simply preach the truth of the scriptures to the person. Then I don’t have much discussion. I’m not going that way. I just say, “I believe that men are saved by the proclamation of the gospel. and I will announce the gospel to you. So that puts us on the same basis.
Now, always begin with the doctrine of God, because the gospel has no meaning and would not be necessary if God were not righteous. If God were anything but just, we wouldn’t even need a gospel. So I start with “This is God, and that’s why it’s important. Essentially, treat your claim of the person as Creator and Support and then as your Redeemer. And then I say, “This God is like this”. Does God have to be holy or just?”And I say, “Would you really like Hitler to be an almighty god?”And then explain the problem. The big problem is that God is good, but you’re not. God is love, you are not. God is just, you’re not. So what does God do with you and his creation?Because if he does, it’s not fair. And I go through all this problem that Paul argues in Romans 3 and it doesn’t take long.
And then I explain to the person, “That’s what God did. To satisfy his righteousness, his Son became a man. He took his sins upon himself, died in his place, rose from the dead. And then I explain not only the importance”. of death, but also the importance of the resurrection. The resurrection did not make him the Son of God, but it was the divine claim of his kinship, as he said in Romans 1, and it was also proof that his death really satisfied God’s righteousness. , as it says in Romans 4:25, you must understand that this Jesus, who was crucified in weakness and resurrected in power, is the King of kings and the Lord of lords, and he rules this world. I often go to Daniel’s book and show them that in reality all the governments of this world are like little children sitting on paper thrones. There is a king, he will return and claim those who belong to him.
And then I explain: judgment, justice, death, the resurrection of the person himself, and I tell him that God now commands every man to repent. I explain what repentance is. But I am very careful here, because if you walk perfectly through the biblical doctrine of repentance and say, “This is repentance,” you don’t live in it. Me neither. You see, you repent in the hope that it will be sincere, but repentance in itself is subject to sanctification. Do I regret it more?
BROWN: Go on
WASHER: And it’s still getting deeper. Isn’t this unique lament the one that solves everything?Then I say what repentance is, and I say what faith is, and I speak of the commandment to repent and the commandment to believe.
And then I ask them, “Is that what you did?” I like to say, “Is this a reality in your life?”Because people say, “I don’t know if I regret anything. “”Then let’s see what repentance is and tell me if it’s a reality, a growing reality in your life. “I don’t know if I believe. ” Well, that’s faith, is that a reality?And a lot of people say, “I think it’s better to come back after thinking about it. “And then, maybe they’ll contact me later and become healthy. Other people who hear the gospel from the beginning say, “Yes, it’s real!I see!? But, you have to work with each soul in a different way. And explain! We hear so many phrases that no one understands. And here’s the problem: many modern preachers will say that we shouldn’t use these expressions. Well, we should use it if it’s in the Bible, but we have to explain them!
And I never leave anyone without saying that, especially someone who professed faith in Christ with me?Will we say I preach in a church across the continent?I’ll never leave you without giving you the warnings of the gospel. What do I mean by that?I say, “Listen, the proof that you have become, that you have in fact repented and believed in salvation, is that you will continue to repent and continue to believe. It will continue to grow in sanctification. You can calm down, but you will see God’s discipline, and you will see progress in sanctification, and you will see the hand of God’s providence, the inescapable hand of God’s providence throughout your life, but if you get to a point in your life where none of this matters and you continue with it, know that today you have learned nothing here , nothing happened to you.
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