Armand, Thanks for adding to the list. Once you ...

2012-01-24T10:21:34.336-05:00

Armand,

Thanks for adding to the list. Once you start listening for this, the examples multiply. Sometimes the word "gospel" is used as a synonym for Christ or God or the Christian life. One might answer that the issue is merely semantic, but, as you note, the issue is whether or not the language we use reflects "sound doctrine." The best test of this, in my view, is whether or not our language reflects Biblical language. That is the question, Are these innovative phrases Biblical? And, What implications might this hold if it does *not* reflect explicitly Biblical language? Does our language matter?

JTR

To add to some of the recent phrases using "g...

2012-01-23T12:11:59.945-05:00

To add to some of the recent phrases using "gospel" in new and unprecedented ways;

Live out the gospel!

The church is a gospel community.

Gospel living.

And of course the way that some of the "missional" groups teach about "adorning the gospel". It is trendy and easy to slip into using this terminology if we don't remember sound doctrine.

Comments on stylos: The gospel: sanctification or evangelization?

Armand, Thanks for adding to the list. Once you ...

To add to some of the recent phrases using "g...