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The 7 Mountain Mandate Pt2

Offended by Chris

John 3:16-17 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. (NIV)

When we speak about taking the Gospel of the Kingdom of God to the 7M’s – Gospel is what it should be; Gospel means good news,  the good news of God’s love and forgiveness of sins. 2 Cor 5:19 God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. I say this because the Church many times has not taken the love of God to the nations, it’s taken the judgement of God to the nations.

We do not live in a dispensation of judgement but in the dispensation of grace. The last 2000 yrs have been the dispensation of grace. Why is this? It’s because God took out the judgement against sin upon His Son Jesus Christ on the cross  and that judgement was for all sin past, present and future. This now releases the Church to proclaim the good news of God’s love. Instead we have mixed judgement with grace; we tell people they are going to hell if they don’t repent, when there is a national disaster such as the bombing of the twin towers or hurricane Katrina, Christian leaders proclaim that God is visiting America with His judgement because the nation has turned away from God.

We now have a God who gets angry if we don’t do as He says, a God who is stern and rigid, a God who invokes fear and  a God that turns people away from the Gospel. We cannot proclaim a God who loves with one hand and a God who judges with the other hand. It confuses the message. Yes – there is a hell to shun but it’s the love of God that attracts and wins people’s hearts.

Let’s determine we are going to invade our mountains with God’s love and grace because our Gospel is a Gospel of good news.

Meditation point: Do I live the Gospel of good news or am I only preaching a Gospel of good news which is empty of grace and love.


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