The Gospel Is The Christ

The gospel you preach, no matter what you call it, is only the true Gospel if it only, and actually does lead someone to The Christ alone.

If what you preach as the Gospel, or something else as a saving message or whatever, and it can or does lead someone to something other than The Christ then it is not the true Gospel.

Christ said that He is the way the truth and the life. That no one gets to the Father except through Him. The Apostles said there was no other name by which people must be saved. If His, and His Apostles' claims are true then He is the only way and our preaching must be just as exclusive.

Is your preaching that exclusive?

The Gospel Is The Cross

As pointed out by Brother Fred LyBrand in his recent open letter.

1 Cor 1:17-25

¹⁷ For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. ¹⁸ For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. ¹⁹ For it is written:

“ I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”

²⁰ Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹ For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. ²² For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; ²³ but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, ²⁴ but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. ²⁵ Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.