Christian or Disciple?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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What is the Gospel?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The soul shudders before oblivion and seeks connection at any price.Gospel<\/em>\u201d (\u03b5\u03c5\u03b1\u03b3\u03b3\u03ad\u03bb\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd) means Good News. In Biblical context it is Gods message to us humans, The core message in the Gospel is the following:<\/strong> 2<\/strong>But, The human \"fell in sin<\/strong>\", in that she listened to, and followed what Satan invited her to do, in conflict with what God had told them (Adam and Eve).Genesis 3; Rom 3:23<\/strong>) This was a rebellious behavior towards God, which led to that the human came under influence and control under Satan. The punishment and the consequence of this was that the human as a being was changed spiritually - the direct spiritual communication with God was broken; and in addition to this she started to age so that physical death now became a reality. 3<\/strong>. But God chose Not<\/em> to leave us here in this situation; God sent Jesus<\/strong>, to rescue people, from their enemies - but above all from their own sins (Ps 2; Luk 1:67-79<\/strong>). 4. Jesus will one day return and punish all sin <\/strong>((Rev 19:11-20:10; Rom 2:5-8<\/strong>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n A FEW DIFFERENT WAYS TO SHARE THE GOSPEL<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a Disciple to Christ it's important to know a few different ways<\/em> to share the Gospel with people. The reasons for this is, that people are different, for example: Still others He sent away... the man who was freed from demons by Jesus command and which instead went into the pig herd. When this man afterwards wanted to follow Jesus, Jesus told him to go home instead and tell everybody about what the Lord had done to him.Mark 5:18-19<\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. about our origin,
2. about how we as humans got ourselves into the problematic situation we are in today,
3. about what the solution for this is, and
a promise about our future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1<\/strong>. Our origin is, that God created us humans into their image, in their likeness<\/strong>, in order to have a close relationship with Him
(Genesis 1:26-28<\/strong>). We have been given the mission to be fruitful and increase and become stewards on earth and with its resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the root cause to all the problems we see in the world today, with for example environmental disaster, greed, jealousness, criminality as for example fraud, rape and murder. And this will only get worse. The punishment for this is eternal punishment and eternal death.(Deut 32:35; Ps 135:14; Matt 25:46; John 3:17-18; 2 These 1:6-10; Hebr 10:30-31<\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jesus is a \"bridge\" back to God (Mark 10:45; Joh 1:14; Hebr 7:26; Rom 3:21-26; 5:12-21; Acts 2:24; Rom 4:25<\/strong>).
God calls us back into a Relationship with Him.<\/strong>, by becoming bornagain (Joh 3:5-8<\/strong>), which starts with that we turn away from our sins and to God<\/em> - Repentance - and set our faith to Jesus (Acts 17:30; Joh 1:12<\/strong>) True repentance and true faith (deeds of faith) that you get baptized in water into Christ<\/em> and get baptized with the Holy Spirit with the Holy Spirit<\/em> (Acts 2:37-38<\/strong>). Then we receive the promise of eternal lifeJoh 3:16<\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A new heaven and a new earth will be created<\/strong> and God will finally destroy\/remove all evilness(Rev 21:1-8<\/strong>)
If you continue to read what's under next heading then you will find a few different presentations of the Gospel - three short videos (the first in Swedish and the other two in English), and two \"napkin pictures\". <\/p>\n\n\n\n
- they take in information in different ways, and thus need to be approached with the Gospel in a way in which they are most prone to receive it in.
can absorb.
- they have different amount of time of attention they are willing to give you.
- they might have a need to hear certain parts of the Gospel more emphasized than others, perhaps depending on how their situation in life look like.
depending on their current life situation.
Jesus approached people in different ways:<\/em>
Certain people He called right away to Follow Him\u2026the twelve disciples he called to follow Him. (Matt 4:19; 9:9; Mark 1:17; Luk 5:27; Luk 1:43<\/strong>)
Other people He gave a Challenge<\/em> to do first\u2026 the rich man he told to go and sell his possessions and give to the poor.Matt 19:16-22<\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n