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Thinking Fellows

Just Preach the Gospel

Thinking Fellows

1517 Podcasts

History, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Apologetics, Theology

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The Thinking Fellows discuss why defining the Gospel carefully and constantly is essential. Many Christian organizations claim their mission is to preach the Gospel, but more often than not, what they mean by "gospel" is the law or simple Christian living. How do organizations like 1517 deal with criticism that they reduce or ignore Christian living in favor of a "just preach the gospel" mentality?

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. My name is Caleb Keith and today I am joined by

0:24.7

Scott Keith, Adam Francisco and Bruce Hillman. We are doing the last topic on my list of

0:33.8

like topics that I came up with in December and this one basically I made this list

0:40.1

by just like listening to phrases that I was hearing online or questions that I saw so if you're

0:46.5

wondering where I got this it's by spending too much time on my phone show that's so shocking so

0:52.0

but I just wanted to address stuff that I thought was commonly being asked or said.

0:58.4

Um, and did that.

0:59.3

And as a close to this is, um, I guess, uh, is addressing a critique of people who say things like,

1:08.4

you can't just preach the gospel or and this is part B is sort of people who see the fact that

1:19.3

oh my gosh you just messed with my mind people who see the fact that all sort of Christian non-profits, churches have the same

1:30.7

mission, which is preach to gospel. So if you go to 1517s about us page, you're going to see

1:37.3

preach to gospel. If you go to... We were accused of that once by a consulting group.

1:41.8

That's why that was also what brought it to mine um if you go to

1:45.9

a gospel coalition it's going to say preach the gospel if you go to uh the mariners church website down

1:53.2

here it's going to say preach the gospel if you go to a christian organization that digs wells

1:58.4

uh in africa it's going to say preach the gospel.

2:01.4

Jesus is going to say it in the Mark I text from last week.

2:04.5

Jesus is going to say it.

2:06.3

And the question I sort of have or I think people have is, is this a meaningless statement?

2:11.7

Is this a statement, preach the gospel a meaningless statement?

2:15.2

To what extent is it true that you can't just preach the gospel

2:20.0

or saying preach the gospel isn't accomplishing anything? And at the end of the day, what does

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