WHAT IS SOCIAL GOSPEL?

WHAT IS SOCIAL GOSPEL?

The social gospel refers to the application of Christian principles to social problems.  According to historian Carl Degler, “The acceptance of the social gospel spelled the transformation of American Protestantism.” More than a traditional religious movement, the...

DOES GOD HAVE ROOM IN YOUR LIFE?

Bonhoeffer wrote in his 1928 essay, Jesus Christ and the Essence of Christianity, God comes to people who have nothing but room for God—and this hollow space, this emptiness in people is called Christian speech, faith. This means that in Jesus of Nazareth, the...
BEING LIKE JESUS IN THE MARKETPLACE

BEING LIKE JESUS IN THE MARKETPLACE

If you imitate Jesus’ ministry, you will find yourself entering the company of “tax collectors and sinners,” conversing on equal footing with the “unclean,” accepting the hospitality of Samaritans and lepers, and saying, with the authority of your own experience,...
KEEP THE BORDERS OPEN

KEEP THE BORDERS OPEN

What we see in Jesus is not an abolition of the border between sin and truth. It is actually an opening in which God’s gift crosses over to us in a tangible form; through this gift, we can readily identify with the good news from Jesus. The prophet is in the...
Exposing Unspoken Conversations

Exposing Unspoken Conversations

The Pharisees pertain to a group of select laymen who are known to be experts in the Law or in the Torah. They created for them a subculture for Christianity where they excluded a lot of people in the process, even Jesus. The legalism of the Pharisees was an example...

Unspoken Conversations

The power unspoken conversations over our lives. These unspoken conversations occur in the background. These unspoken conversations are so pervasive that you might not notice that they exist, much like the little voice. But sometimes this conversation goes beyond the...
Why Do You End Up with a Dead End?

Why Do You End Up with a Dead End?

What keeps you from experiencing breakthroughs? Check your heart if you’re suffering from these things. Lack of Inspiration When you lack inspiration, it will be hard to be moved into doing an action. The lack of inspiration steals your drive to move forward....
Fear Stops Inspiration

Fear Stops Inspiration

One of the most powerful enemies of an enrollment process is the presence of fear. When there is fear in either the enroller or the enrollee, it is challenging to spark inspiration into another person’s life. Fear prevents us from experiencing a successful enrollment...
Lack of Commitment

Lack of Commitment

People fall short because of the lack of commitment. They may be inspired at first, but then they end up giving up at the first sight of trouble. Commitment does not come cheap. This is true now as it was true as we take a look at Bible history. There were a number of...
Understanding the Lack of Integrity

Understanding the Lack of Integrity

When we speak about the experience of integrity,  we are referring to the experience of completeness. Integrity comes from the Latin word integer, which means whole. Integrity creates a space wherein all things are possible. Integrity inspires trust, respect, freedom,...