{"id":84,"date":"2010-01-22T10:10:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T17:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2019-11-02T01:38:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T07:38:30","slug":"how-important-is-it-for-people-to-know-and-respond-to-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/archives\/84","title":{"rendered":"How important is it for people to know and respond to the Gospel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person explained it to me like this:<\/p>\n<p>1. Christians don&#8217;t need to hear it explained or expounded upon on Sunday morning. Most people who show up to church on any given Sunday already know it.<\/p>\n<p>2. And when it comes to non-Christians, other faiths have revelations about God too; Christianity doesn&#8217;t have a monopoly on truth.<\/p>\n<p>3. It is narrow-minded, judgmental, and arrogant to think that people must become a Christian to be saved. Jesus is surely more gracious than that.<\/p>\n<p>4. People in other religions (Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, etc.) may be following Christ through their religion without knowing it is Him they are following. If so, they don&#8217;t need to become Christians.<\/p>\n<p>5. Rather than teaching young people that Jesus is the only way to the Father, you should allow them to determine these types of things on their own. It is not our place to say who is or isn&#8217;t going to heaven.<\/p>\n<p>6. In light of this, I would not be overly concerned with telling people that Jesus is the only way.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>I have also been told:<\/p>\n<p>1. I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.<\/p>\n<p>2. Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bible.cc\/matthew\/7-14.htm\"><strong> <\/strong><\/a>But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find\u00a0it.<\/p>\n<p>3. There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.\u00a0 All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.<\/p>\n<p>4. But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.<\/p>\n<p>5. I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes.<\/p>\n<p>6. How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher? <a href=\"http:\/\/bible.cc\/romans\/10-15.htm\"><strong> <\/strong><\/a>How will they preach unless they are sent?<\/p>\n<p>7. The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. <a href=\"http:\/\/bible.cc\/matthew\/9-38.htm\"><strong> <\/strong><\/a>Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.<\/p>\n<p>8. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, <a href=\"http:\/\/bible.cc\/matthew\/28-20.htm\"><strong> <\/strong><\/a>and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.<\/p>\n<p>9. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 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