I was chosen by God,
I was set called by God,
I was set apart by God,
I was saved by God,
I was redeemed by God,
I was commissioned by God,
I was enlightened by God,
I was instructed by God,
I was appointed by God,
I was empowered by God,
I was directed by God,
Why on earth would I suddenly seek to please men?
In the last day it will be God before whom we stand. We will be judged not by men, nor by angels, but by God! And we will be either be rewarded or passed over by God! It is God whom we must please. And there is only one message that pleases God. And it is the Gospel of God; salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
Greg Gilbert’s book, What is the Gospel? is free in the iBook store and Kindle this month! I hear it’s an amazing book, I’m just now starting it.
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“Christ is more valuable than ANYTHING!” – John Piper
Rick Warren on spiritual maturity:
Rick Warrens ‘gospel’:
John MacArthur on Rick Warren’s ‘gospel’ in the Purpose Driven Life:
2 Timothy 4:1-5 (NASB, emphasis added):
1. I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
2. preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
3. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,
4. and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
5. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
Ask yourself this: “Does my Church preach the Gospel of Christ? Or does it preach a social ‘gospel’?” If your church preaches a social gospel, flee from that church! Find a good, solid Bible Preaching Church! I highly recommend checking out 9marks.org.
A church in which the Bible is not the standard of faith and practice – a Church in which repentance, faith, and holiness, are not prominently put forward as essential to salvation, – a Church in which forms, and ceremonies, and ordinance not commanded in the Bible, are the chief things urged upon the attention of the members, – such a Church is in a very diseased and unsatisfactory condition.
Knots Untied, “The Church” [Cambridge, England: James Clarke & Co., 1977], 177.