Evangelism must be tethered to the gospel, and the gospel message proclaimed must be doctrinally clear and biblically grounded. Without a gospel message, we cannot win souls. The gospel’s central essence is the person and work of Christ. The gospel is not about me; it is about Him. The gospel is for His Glory! Our ultimate need is to enthrone Him upon our hearts. R. C. Sproul declared, “We need Christ. We need a real Christ. A Christ born of empty speculation or created to squeeze into the philosopher’s pattern simply won’t do. A recycled Christ, a Christ of compromise, can redeem no one. A Christ watered down, stripped of power, debased of glory, reduced to a symbol, or made impotent by scholarly surgery is not Christ but Antichrist.” [1] We must speak clearly to honor Christ as willing ambassadors for Christ’s cause. Therefore, the gospel stands upon these four objective truths: the gospel reveals that God is Holy, it declares that the whole of mankind has fallen under God’s...
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