Men may for a time be hearers of the gospel, men may for order’s sake pray, sing, …. but if it be without joy, will not that hypocrisy in time break out? Will they not begin to be weary? Nay will they not be as ready to hear any other doctrine? Good things cannot long find entertainment in our corruptions, unless the Holy Spirit hath changed us from our old delights to conceive pleasure in these things.
Gospel
Mother Teresa
He, being God, became man in all things like us except in sin, and he proclaimed very clearly that he had come to give the good news. The news was peace to all of good will and this is something that we all want – the peace of heart. And God loved the world so much that he gave his son – it was a giving: it is as much as if to say it hurt God to give, because he loved the world so much that he gave his son. (in her Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech)
Desmond Tutu
I don’t preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn’t say, “Now is that political or social?” He said, “I feed you.” Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.
Alexander MacLaren
The cross is the center of the world’s history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifixion of our Lord are the pivot around which all the events of the ages revolve. The testimony of Christ was the spirit of prophecy, and the growing power of Jesus is the spirit of history.
Pete Greig
Three essential gospel imperatives: prayer, mission and justice. This is our DNA. With it we can change the world. Without all three we’ll be merely a bunch of second-rate social workers pursuing justice without prayer, second-hand salesmen of religion without justice or pious hermits so focused on heaven we’ve lost all earthly usefulness.