Your Response

Chapter 4 of Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler discusses our response to Jesus. Here are a few quotes to encourage you to pick up the book.
"Christ's work demands the response of faith, but we want to make donations."
 "What I learned in those early days is that the proclamation of the glory of God, the might of God, and the majesty of God brought to bear on the sinfulness of man in the atoning work of Jesus Christ actually stirs the hearts of men. And men respond to that stirring. Some are stirred to belief; some are not."
"When we dilute or ditch the gospel, we end up with an evangelicalism featuring special appearances  by Jesus but the denial of his power (2 Timothy 3:5)."
"A hearer's response is not our responsibility; our responsibility is to be faithful to God's call and the message of the gospel."
"We are never, ever, ever going to make Christianity so cool that everybody wants it.  . . It doesn't need our help anyway."
"We need to rightly divide between gospel and response, or we compromise both."
"If we piggyback the work of the church onto the message of the gospel, we don't enhance the gospel."
"Every good gift the Father gives--every richness from Christ, every blessing from the Spirit--flows from the gospel and is received through faith."
"The gospel on the ground, then, reveals the integral narrative we can outline this way: God, man, Christ, response." 
 
 
 

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