American Religion’s Lost Gospel -
How has the Gospel been distorted and lost in America?
Jeff Pollard explains in this video that the heart of the problem of "American commercial religion" is that all too often, the Gospel is watered down and distorted. Many churches wrongly preach that "if you only believe" and "pray this prayer," you automatically go to Heaven when you die. However, when we look to Scripture, we see that it portrays an entirely different Gospel.
When the Gospel is preached throughout Scripture, the Gospel message always begins with God. This is because there must be a context in which to preach Christ. There must first be an explanation of God and of man’s condition. Then, man's need for Christ is explained. It is not enough to simply talk about Christ, but unsaved individuals must understand why they need Him. Once we have done that, we then have a responsibility to call them to repentance and faith.
2 Timothy 4:2-4 (NKJV) – “Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.”
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