Do You Expect a Response to the Preaching of the Gospel?
Justin Taylor Blog | June 22, 2012
"St Paul expected his hearers to be moved. He so believed in his preaching that he knew that it was "the power of God unto salvation" [Rom. 1:16]. This expectation is a very real part of the presentation of the Gospel. It is a form of faith. A mere preaching which is not accompanied by the expectation of faith, is not a true preaching of the Gospel, because faith is a part of the Gospel. Simply to scatter the seed, with a sort of vague hope that some of it may come up somewhere, is not preaching the gospel. It is indeed a misrepresentation of the gospel. To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling: it requires that the speaker should expect a response."
---Roland Allen, Missionary Methods---St. Paul's or Ours? (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1962), p. 74.
HT: David Hosaflook
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June 22, 2012 at 03:58 PM
Thanks!
June 22, 2012 at 03:53 PM
"Hat tip" (i.e., where the blogger first saw or most recently saw or heard about the quote or story).
June 22, 2012 at 03:43 PM
I am not up on the web/blog lingo. What does "HT:" followed by a person's name mean?
July 3, 2012 at 08:43 AM
"A mere preaching which is not accompanied by the expectation of faith, is not a true preaching of the Gospel, because faith is a part of the Gospel. "
That can't possibly be right.
Paul says in Phillipians he was happy if the gospel was preached for fleshly rivalrous reasons because at least it was preached.
And "everybody" keeps saying the Gospel is about that which is done for you, and faith is a response, so faith can't be 'gospel'
its like a kind of the Donatist heresy, which was to say that unconverted ministers couldn't rightly administer sacraments.
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