The Gospel's Power & Message
by Paul Washer | Book Summary
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Author: Paul Washer
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The essential elements of the gospel are either absent or twisted from too many modern pulpits. These essentials include:
Too often, the gospel is reduced to repeating a prayer, making a decision, and being reassured that Jesus loves you just the way you are. The resulting consequences of this approach to the gospel are far-reaching, including:
Ministers and laymen alike have been entrusted with the glorious gospel of our blessed God (1 Ti. 1:11), and we must not stand by while that message is replaced by a lesser gospel that is neither of God nor has the power to save. "As stewards of this trust, we have a duty to recover the one true gospel and proclaim it boldly and clearly to all." (p. x) |
Paul Washer is a Baptist preacher and former missionary. He became a believer while attending the University of Texas. Upon completing his undergraduate studies, he went on to earn his MDiv from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. After graduation, he traveled to Peru as a missionary, where he served for ten years. While there, he founded the HeartCry Missionary Society to support Peruvian church planters, and he remains the director to this day. HeartCry now supports indigenous missionaries all over the world in proclaiming the full gospel with an emphasis on the sufficiency of Scripture.
Union With Christ
by Paul Washer
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| Author | Paul Washer |
| Publisher | Reformation Heritage Books |
| Date | 2012 |
| Pages | 274 |
Overview:
The Gospel's Power and Message is one of three volumes in the Recovering the Gospel series. This series breaks down the elementary truths of the gospel that have been largely neglected and distorted in contemporary Christianity.
The essential elements of the gospel are either absent or twisted from too many modern pulpits. These essentials include:
- The justice of God
- The radical depravity of man
- The blood atonement
- The nature of true conversion
- The biblical basis of assurance.
Too often, the gospel is reduced to repeating a prayer, making a decision, and being reassured that Jesus loves you just the way you are. The resulting consequences of this approach to the gospel are far-reaching, including:
- False conversions
- Carnal men driving the direction of the church
- Evangelism becomes a humanitarian endeavor instead of gospel proclamation
- God is not glorified.
Ministers and laymen alike have been entrusted with the glorious gospel of our blessed God (1 Ti. 1:11), and we must not stand by while that message is replaced by a lesser gospel that is neither of God nor has the power to save. "As stewards of this trust, we have a duty to recover the one true gospel and proclaim it boldly and clearly to all." (p. x)
Paul Washer is a Baptist preacher and former missionary. He became a believer while attending the University of Texas. Upon completing his undergraduate studies, he went on to earn his MDiv from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. After graduation, he traveled to Peru as a missionary, where he served for ten years. While there, he founded the HeartCry Missionary Society to support Peruvian church planters, and he remains the director to this day. HeartCry now supports indigenous missionaries all over the world in proclaiming the full gospel with an emphasis on the sufficiency of Scripture.