Christianity today has become real interesting. Like how a lot of churches today are into Missions and Evangelism; putting priority on the Great Commission.
“Well, the Gospel is simple really… you know… there’s not much really to grasp… I mean it’s not like one of those deep theological treatises.”
Is the Gospel really that easy to grasp?
It really surprises me to think that we can build dozens and hundreds on sermons that talk about faith, blessings and God’s promises but we can say so little about the Gospel of Christ, much less talk about the Cross. The greatest, the most Glorious, the pinnacle of the Glorification of God, the Cross, how is it possible that for something as momentous as that, all we can usually say is: “Christ was crucified, died, buried, and has risen on the third day.”
Is the Gospel, the Cross just some feeble truth that we get over with and move on to some much “greater truth”? It amazes me that the Gospel today has so little of a definition for the majority of professing Christians and even the pulpits of modern Christianity. Seemingly we move on to greater things like, “Enjoying our everyday life”, “Practical Christianity”, achieving our “Best life now” and living a “life of victory”. If the pulpits do not understand nor grasp the importance of the Gospel, how then can the congregation grasp the same? Or is the Gospel only for the Minister’s of Faith, thinking that an ordinary pew-warmer cannot understand this thing?
Then we put people under obligation to preach this Gospel. People who in the first place has no sense of the depths of the Cross, the lengths of the sacrifice of Christ, the height of the Glorification of Deity. But we say “that’s okay”, since we have this tried and tested strategy or methodology in reaching the lost.
