It is, for the most part, a “different gospel” that is being shared from America’s pulpits. A gospel that glorifies “self” with a Savior that died to give us a “better life.”
Unfortunately, that is not “the Gospel” that you will find in the Bible. Oh, it is part of it…but the “best life now” thing is a small branch of the “living water” that is supposed to flow out of the belly of Believers. The True Gospel is not only life changing, it is life altering.
The “Gospel of the Kingdom” does not call us to a “better” life, but to a sacrificial death. Jesus loved us so much that He called us to die daily. He told us to “pick up our cross” and follow Him. He exhorted us that to lose our life is to find it…that to die is gain and that “greater love has no man than this that he would lay down his life for his friends.”
Being a true disciple of Jesus is a sacrificial call to a life of service. Most Christians have no idea what that even means.
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