What used to be basic, universally-known truths about Christianity are now unknown mysteries to a large and growing share of Americans, especially young adults.

The Gospel doesn't need bright lights or a fog machine.

The Gospel doesn't change, but neither does our need for it.Even the most caring, loving, and kind church will lose people who love their sin if it preaches the Gospel and true repentance.When the Gospel is truly preached, people are brought to the church without entertainment, events, or promises beyond those given by the Gospel. The Church at Pergamum. The power of God isn't in us but in his Gospel. Our method is the Gospel.To infer from Jesus' get-together with big crowds that churches must focus on consumer-driven tactics is to have selective-hearing in the Gospels. Let's boldly pray that through the simple-yet-fathomlessly-eternal message of the Gospel, God will continue to use our churches to reach those without Jesus as Savior (2 Tim. 16:18). And I must admit, I’ve been one of those Christians. Today's Cancel Culture.

We can have the best music, the best performers, the best communicators, the best programs, but without the Gospel properly shared and lived, there's no power of God.Christ said, "I will build my church" (Matt. The Gospel will be just fine.

(2 Timothy 4:3-4) Is God's judgment going to fall on you?Jesus is coming soon and the questions that need to be asked are, "is the Bridegroom going to find a spotless bride?" The Church Today. There are various churches and Christians in the world today doing that very thing by the grace of God. 1:4).

Maybe another 5 percent, or 10 percent at best, is given to needs outside the church that on some level help the poor.But such distribution of funds runs counter opposite to how the early church spent its money. the truth or are they telling the people exactly what they want to hear? Yes, there will be fallings away, false messiahs, heresies that ravage his teaching, moral aberrations that harm our witness, and persecutions that sweep over the landscape. They would have been mystified by our modern ability to own, read and yet neglect the priceless written word.I fear that our desire to get back to the early church would require a rather extensive overhaul of the shape of contemporary gatherings. How about almost always).

And when Jesus told His disciples to teach others “all that I command you,” they did it (Matthew 28:20).This is why Christian leaders in the first centuries of the faith mandated a rigorous, communal study of the Bible for everyone who became a believer. us our sins when we ask.
We resist the upward look because it implies that someone or something is above us, and that Someone might have authority. We are in a moral revolution, in which longstanding beliefs in our culture are being turned upside down. These are tough questions to answer.

2:24-26)—and that without the power of politics.The top 7 stories of the day, curated just for you! The modern church has fallen away from God and is in very bad shape. Expressive individualism turns that around. No enthusiasm in encouraging and helping new converts to settle in with the new society. The first Christians saw themselves as brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers to everyone who was part of the Christian community.This is, of course, well known to anyone who reads the New Testament. To become a Christian meant becoming reconfigured through the Word of God. The Gospel Coalition exists to equip the next generation of believers, pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel. According to one statistic, 60 percent of confessing born-again Christians can’t name five of the 10 commandments, 81 percent don’t believe (or aren’t aware of) the basic tenets of the Christian faith, and 12 percent think that Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife.Early Christians eagerly soaked up the word of God like a sponge.