The Gospel as an Announcement
If the Gospel is not an appeal to “choose Jesus,” as I proposed last week, what is it? I am going to propose this week that, in the Bible, it is an announcement or a proclamation. It is interesting that as one reads through the book of Acts there is no initial appeal to believe in the sermons that are recorded. Read Peter’s sermon on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2, and later before the Sanhedrin in both Acts 4 and 5; Stephen’s…