There is only one gospel

One of the experiences of evangelistic work is that unconsciously (or out of ignorance), we have sometimes tried to limit the Gospel to a series of ethical principles about what to do and what not to do. It is exactly what the Jews did in the time of Jesus. They guided their lives and taught believers on the basis of commandments from the Law according to which some things were allowed and others were not.

Thank God the Spirit has taught us that the Gospel has nothing to do with it. When we circumscribe the Gospel of Christ to a series of personal actions towards what is called “good”, our message is diluted and the essence of the best news in the world is not communicated.

The Gospel is to give faith that God has entered your life, that his Spirit has begun in you the transforming and liberating work of all the bonds that kept you a slave to sin, that the Lord has fixed on you so that you reflect his light in the darkness in which the world is plunged. The Gospel is not to calm the conscience of our bad acts, nor to seek relief from our bad behavior, but to give testimony of a new life in the Spirit and to do good by the own power that it carries intrinsically.

We cannot afford to be naïve in preaching and evangelization by conforming to the so-called “benefit of the doubt” in the face of relativism that prevails in the postmodern world where everyone wields their truths and also admits all possible truths. schizophrenia coming from the world in which the vast majority have turned their backs on the true God. Doubt is never a benefit to one who has been justified by faith in the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Our benefactor is He. Our victory is His life in us. Christ is a tangible reality, so real that, as the word says, we have no excuses for not seeing the work of his redemptive mission. That is why it is so important that the church fulfill its mission, express itself as a community of love in Christ, and arm itself with committed leadership to do its work.

The church of the living Christ must establish itself as the only bearer of Truth and without fear, proclaim it. The church is the bulwark for the world to come closer to God, it is not its architecture, but you and I and our testimony. The commitment to share the love of Christ and what he has done in our lives should not only be a slogan to win proselytes, but also the facts, the action, the move from the spiritual to invade hearts with the weapons of hope that we have in Christ and present him as he is. The days will have to pass when the church continues to be accused that people have stopped believing not in God, but in the testimony of the church. But if there is any truth to this, we must face it and reverse it.

This theme has been used as a pretext for unbelievers and those weak in faith to try - sometimes with some success - to show the inefficiency of the body of Christ in its mission to reach the world with the saving Gospel through a testimony genuinely Christian. The Gospel cannot be served “à la carte”, nor can it be molded to the needs of the believer, but rather proclaim Christ as the solution to the serious situation of man degenerated by his own incontinence.

We live in difficult times to bear witness to Christ, but we do not have the right to sweeten the Gospel with promises of well-being and prosperity to those who sincerely want to approach the son of God seeking to solve their problems, but ... without renouncing sin. Our responsibility as Christians, in this sense, becomes more and more relevant and the world will become better as we preach, rather than with words, with our actions. I invite you, dear brother or sister, to be attentive to the voice of God and to block certain pseudo-prophetic winds that announce gales on the one hand and prosperity for the Christian on the other and forget that Christ is the sole owner of our lives and that his will is always pleasant and perfect for all his creation.

God bless you!