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The Explicit Gospel is unavailable, but you can change that!

Even if you go to church, it doesn’t mean that you are being exposed (or exposing others) to the gospel explicitly. Sure, most people talk about Jesus, and about being good and avoiding bad, but the gospel message simply isn’t there—at least not in its specificity and its fullness. Inspired by the needs of both the overchurched and the unchurched, and bolstered by the common neglect of the...

own these things, like they were given to us by ourselves for the glory of ourselves, we belittle the name of God. The universe isn’t Burger King; we don’t get to have everything made our way. So the weight of Matthew 25:41–46 is not, “You had better feed the poor.” The weight of this text is that you have been given much by God to steward in order to be a blessing and primarily a reflection of his glory. Food and drink and clothing are given to us not chiefly for our benefit but for God’s glory,
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