This article by Jackson Wu provides four keys to communicating the Gospel to people from honour/shame cultures. Traditional presentations mainly use legal language, focus on individuals, stress the futility of works, and appeal to people’s fear of pain, whether physical or psychological. I didn’t do that. Instead, I highlighted a basic but often overlooked fact: …
Another helpful interview posted by St Helen’s Bishopsgate, this time with Kanishka Raffel from Perth, Western Australia. The theme is not losing heart as we preach the Gospel. Conducted in an interview style, Kanishka models a very winsome and engaging expositional style as he opens 2 Corinthians 4 to show the reasons for being encouraged …
So, embarking into the book of Acts on Sunday part of the sermon looked at the response of the disciples to Jesus promise of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. They asked “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” The disciples had an understanding of what the power of the Gospel …
Sinclair Ferguson on the Gospel: I have met some exceptionally intelligent people who cannot understand the Christian gospel. They hear its message as if it were a lecture on morality. Yet the gospel is not difficult to understand. The problem lies within us—in our spiritual blindness. If there is resistance in the heart to loving …
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