Point 1Relationships open doors; only the gospel saves
Everybody turn your Bibles to Romans chapter 15. Fifteen is a big chapter, huh? We are actually looking at verses 14–21 today. Give you a moment to turn there with me. While you do, I have had the, oh, I would not really say privilege, but it has been an interesting journey.
My youngest son has sucked me into his vortex of hobbies, one of them being arm wrestling, and so yesterday we had a little bit of a tournament, and it was funny, because most of the tournaments I go to, I have slipped by as being a pastor. All the practices we have on Sunday afternoon, right after church we go to practice, and just been building relationships with people in that world. It is an interesting world, very interesting, not many people in khakis and polos there. It is an interesting world. There are believers in our group, then there are people far from Christ that arm wrestle. It has been interesting to watch and build relationships with them. I simply am basically like the fish that attaches to a whale and hitches a ride, and so I just kind of go to the garage, there's guys arm wrestling, I kind of stand there, I really don't even arm wrestle because I like my joints and ligaments not being torn off their muscle. I'm old and I break easily. So my son, though, has been encouraging me to actually try to be better, and so the last four times I went to practice I started participating and trying to train in the evenings. He would grab me and bring me into the room and we would train, and typically go to arm wrestling tournaments and have my arm ripped off right out of the socket, just slammed down. This time I actually put up a fight, and I was pretty proud of it, because the guy I was arm wrestling, some people call him Sloth, some people call him the Vampire because he just sucks the soul right out of you. And so I actually won, and so I was really good. As a matter of fact, it got such notice because they just recently found out I was a pastor, and the guy that was announcing got so excited that a pastor actually won at a meet that he said, this is actually a pastor, he's a pastor, that's a pastor that won. And so I thought that was pretty hilarious, and I just realized that, and I wanted to preface this, you know, it was exciting, I wanted to say that, but so, yeah, I did have to say that, because it's, man, these guys are tough. I did have to lose 30 pounds to get down to a weight where I actually could compete. But the main point of what i'm trying to say here is that your life either brings light into a situation or not, and sometimes words are necessary. At times they are, eventually, in relationships with people, words are necessary.
Now notice this: it is the word of God that saves. It is not your life living out the word before them that saves, it's the word.
Pastor Shawn Gray · 3:28
So relationship then creates space for you to share the gospel, not your gospel, okay, not your CliffsNotes version of the gospel, not some culturally relevant, soft, limp-arm version of the gospel, that people might then take and partake in the gospel. So then through relationship, doorways are opened up for us to have conversations and share Christ. Oh, a big one was opened up on Saturday. It is amazing the questions that come when people realize you're a pastor, some good, some not so good, but I will say that it's opportunity. The question is, what do you do with the opportunity and the doorway that then is opened through months and years of relationship building? Do you understand that your words don't have power, but only his words have power, and are you versed enough in the gospel that when the doorway is opened and the opportunity presents itself, you can actually share the gospel? That's the question. So then another question we could ask is, Shawn, why have we for two years been going through Romans? Because the Apostle Paul, and I want you to be so versed in the gospel that you can give an answer when the time arises, that when the door of opportunity opens, you know the gospel. Romans is that. It is Paul simply sharing
The gospel. Now that's crazy, because we've been learning about this for two years. The gospel
Pastor Shawn Gray · 5:44
is not "Jesus loves you."
That's a small part of it. That is not the gospel. And how many of you know that if you were to take a 100-page instruction manual and you were given 10,000 pieces and you had to put something together and 10 pages of that manual, right in the middle, were removed, how well would you put those 10,000 pieces together with 10 pages of the manual gone?
Comprehensive understanding of the gospel is essential for proper delivery of the gospel. You miss a part, you miss a lot.
Pastor Shawn Gray · 6:20
Let me ask you a question: do you know the gospel? If somebody were to sit down at dinner and they would ask you to share the gospel, would your answer be "Jesus loves you"? And how comprehensive is that? And do you think that saves? See, that's the question at the end of the day, and many of you are going to have opportunities. The reality is you have relationships, you run in circles I don't run in, and there are people that need to hear the gospel that I will never be able to preach the gospel to them, but you will be able to share the gospel to them. So the Apostle Paul then is compelling us in Romans, and then we move to this section here where he is trying to help, he's entreating us, if you will, to share the gospel, his passion for the
Point 2Romans 15 closes the letter as chapter 1 opened it
Gospel. Now we've come to what is often, in my opinion, overlooked as a major transition in the book of Romans. It happens right in the middle of chapter 15, and then we have, all that's left is half of 15 and 16, and this is one of the biggest transitions in the book of Romans and we miss it. In reality this is almost, in my opinion, almost like the bookend of the book of Romans right here in this section. It's ending something that is big. We can understand the outline of Romans best if we think of it as a doctrinal treatise wrapped up in a letter. In other words, he's entreating us, or he is speaking to us about doctrinal issues in a letter to a church in Rome. Now the letter begins with the first 17 verses of chapter 1, and everything since has been Paul's treatise, but here in verse 14 of chapter 15 of Romans, Paul resumes the letter. It's almost like he picks up. So he starts the letter in chapter 1, he gives a treatise, or doctrinal foundational issues, he shares the gospel in full, and then we get to Romans chapter 15, verses 14–21, where we are now, and it's almost like he closes out his letter. So the beginning of the letter, the treatise, and then the closing of the letter, that's where we're at. That's what's going on. Paul resumes the letter format and actually harks back to some of the things that he wrote about in chapter 1. He began a letter in chapter 1, remember the way that we began. Go back there with me, turn back to chapter 1 if you will, give you just a moment to get there.
You there? Let's read this together, 1 through 7, that's probably sufficient, it actually goes through verse 17, the opening of his letter, but let's just do 1 through 7 so you can get the picture. "Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power," everybody say power, "according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ, to all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." The opening of this letter goes all the way through verse 17, and then in verse 18 begins the treatise of the doctrine of justification, the most significant treatise on the doctrine of justification to be found in the entire Bible, in my opinion. And then we come to what our assignment is today, in Romans 15:14–21, Paul then closes out the letter. We have the opening of the letter, we have the treatise, doctrinal foundational issues that he deals with, and then we have the closing of the letter to the church in Rome, and that's where we're at today. Verses 14–21, let's read it together in chapter 15: "I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another." Isn't it interesting that these
Point 3The gospel still saves those who know it
People are good, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another, and he still preaches the gospel to them? I mean, I thought the gospel was for lost people. I thought the gospel was for people who acted like they were churchgoers, acted like they were Christian but really weren't. So you mean to tell me that solid churches filled with solid people filled with solid Christians who have all knowledge of the gospel are still benefactors of the gospel? See, this runs crossways with our cultural understanding of what the gospel is, and in fact we think that it no longer has value for those who have been in the church for 20 or 30 years, no longer has value for those who went to seminary or have an education or theological degree behind their name. The reality is the gospel is still the power to save, even if you're discipled and have all knowledge and have a degree to your name with the Th.D. On it. This is important, because the gospel comes to all people, both the lost and the disciples.
You never mature to the degree that the gospel no longer has power in your life.
Pastor Shawn Gray · 13:11
The reality is we think, and we believe in, a gospel that only has the power to save the lost but not the power to save the saved.
We think that the power of the gospel saves once but doesn't continue to save day by day.
Pastor Shawn Gray · 13:37
The reality is we don't have a full scope of understanding the gospel. Verse 15: "But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God. For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience, by word and deed, by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God." By the way, Paul is really good at creating three points. I mean, if you had to preach this, he's already given, four times he's given three points on something. In seminary, when you would go to preaching class, they really didn't allow you to preach on any Pauline epistles, because he gives three points in about every verse. He's a three-pointer kind of guy. I mean, if you go back here, "I myself am satisfied of you, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct," three points. I mean, he's just funny this way, right? And we go on to verse 19, "by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God," there's another one. Verse 18, "by word and deed, by the power of signs and wonders, by the Spirit of God," there's another three-pointer. They're all in there, man. I could have done probably 10 sermons out of this section. All right, where am I at? So that "from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ; and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation, but as it is written, 'Those who have never been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will understand.'" There's a pattern that you find if you read on through verse 33. We won't do that, but I want you to get this pattern. I want you to understand the opening of the letter and the closing of the letter and the connection between the two. Okay, so here it is, they're going to put a screen up here. First of all, this is the way he opens his letter and closes his letter.
Now one of the things they tell you, I don't do this, it's why I didn't make a great grade in preaching, I don't do it because I'm a rebel, but what they say in essays and in your writing and then also in your preaching is, tell people what you're going to tell them, and then tell them what you told them. That's kind of what we have happening here. We see the connection between the two. So the beginning of chapter 1 and then chapter 15, we see the connection. He gives a commendation of the Romans 15:14 and Romans 1:8, you can kind of, well, do you not have that? Okay. So that's number one. Then the identification of the declaration of Paul as the apostle to the Gentiles, we see this in Romans 15:15–21, and then also the connection in Romans 1:13, the hindrance in visiting Rome, hindrance in visiting Rome. So in the very opening of his letter he talks about being hindered in being able to visit Rome, and then in 15 he talks about being hindered again, hindrance in visiting Rome, Romans 15:22 and Romans 1:13. You see the connection between the two. He's saying what he's going to say, he says it, and then he closes it out by saying what he said. The desire to visit the church in Rome, Romans 15:27, Romans 1:14, desiring to minister for the sake of mutual blessing there in Rome, Romans 15:29, Romans 1:11 and 12. And then he offers a prayer. So he's closing out his letter here, and we're not done with Romans, he's closing it out with prayer. He opens with prayer and he closes with prayer. He opens with prayer, Romans 1:9–10, and he closes in prayer, Romans 15:30 through 32. So Paul is not only closing the letter but he's also recapping the letter that he has just written, as though he was writing this as an essay: tell them what you're going to tell them, and tell them what you told them. In essence he's harkening back to his opening, to his introduction, now letting us know that he has come to his conclusion, and in his conclusion he gets personal, and when Paul gets personal he cannot help but talk about missions, and that's what this section is all about. In the next paragraph he talks about his desire to come to Rome, not only to come to Rome so that he can stay and hang out and vacation and enjoy the people of Rome, he talks about his eagerness to come to Rome and visit them on his way to Spain, because he has a mission, he has a purpose, and he longs to push forward to unreached territory and unreached people groups. However, in his proclamation of talking about going to unreached people, with unreached people groups, to give the gospel, he preaches the gospel to those who have all knowledge, who are good. Are you with me today? And so just because his mission is to preach the gospel to unreached people groups, to places where the gospel has not been laid, he still preaches the gospel to a place where it has been laid, and both have the power to save, and that's important today.
Now if you could just stop here for a moment, just think over the last two years. I mean, maybe this just applies to me, it's possible that you are so full of all knowledge that learning is beyond the realm of possibility for you, the growth is beyond the realm of possibility for you. It is possible you are so lofty and so priestly and so wonderful and so magnificent and so holy that you have not been saved by this journey through Romans day by day, but oh, how my life has been touched and healed and corrected and rebuked. It has been wonderful to watch how my focus and ambition has shifted to be so God-centric that the things that I once held dear and true I see differently in the light of his goodness, because the gospel still saves. The gospel still saves.
So the next paragraph, he talks about his desire to come to Rome, but not to come to Rome to just enjoy it or hang out in the territory but to get through to unreached people groups. So this is all about Paul's mission, past, present, and future, and the implication of his mission, past, present, and future. This is ultimately what we know about the Apostle Paul: his ministry is his life. His life is about pushing forward into territory where the gospel has not been reached, proclaiming the gospel, establishing churches, strengthening churches, and then continuing to push forward into places where the gospel has not been reached. In fact, this letter is a part of this mission, ministry. It's part of what Paul does to strengthen churches. But if you think this letter is just a simple overview of Paul's mission, it's not.
Speaking beyond that this is not a doctrinal treatise, a doctrinal treatise on the mission of the church, you miss it, because it's not simply a history lesson or history letter about Paul's mission and not the church's mission. This is also the church's mission.
Here he is admonishing an established church. We see this in Romans 15:14–16, "I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge," and listen, "able to instruct one another." This is a good established church, good, knowledgeable, and able to instruct one another, and yet, but even so, the ministry of the gospel still comes to them. It doesn't just go to the bad, unknowledgeable, and those who were unable to instruct one another. He says, "But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God." Boldly, by way of reminder, because of the grace given to me by God, he writes boldly. How many of you, just real quickly, just by a show of hands, how many of you have ever attempted to share the gospel with somebody? Good. How many of you equally say you did it boldly? Less, right? Less. Now just think with me for a second:
Point 4Paul writes boldly because the gospel delivers
How is it that he is able to do so boldly? How is that? I mean, I think it's important, because when I want to proclaim the gospel I want to do so with boldness. How many of you've ever been at a place where somebody's up front and uncomfortable and their uncomfortableness makes you uncomfortable? You ever been in a speech class, and then they rotate through, how many of you have ever been in a speech class, real quick? Right, and they rotate through and everybody has to do their 10 to 15 minute speech, right, and so then people get up, and how many of you experience the feeling that when somebody's up there and they're bold and they're confident that you feel comfortable with the message being presented, but if somebody's up there and they're nervous and they're scattered and they're uncomfortable and they're not bold, what does it make you feel like? I would propose to you today the boldness, not being a great communicator, that's not what I'm talking about. Notice he doesn't speak to the delivery, he speaks to the boldness, because you can be bad at delivery but you can be good in boldness, and the boldness presents an atmosphere that creates comfort for the reception of the gospel. Notice it's not the delivery where power is, there it's in the word, but it's boldness, it plays a role in the delivery of the gospel. Paul writes boldly. I would propose to you today we can be bold when our message is the message of the gospel. I want to propose to you that we must be bold when our message is the message of the gospel. Why? Because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes. That's why you can be bold. It saves. It's a promise. You can take it to the bank that when you preach his gospel, it saves.
It doesn't fall short, it doesn't get a D+, it doesn't get an F, it doesn't even get a C, it hits a home run, it hits a grand slam, it fills all the bases and runs everybody home.
Pastor Shawn Gray · 27:24
It delivers. When you preach this, it delivers, and you can trust it will deliver. It delivers.
He also says this by way of reminder. He writes the church in Rome a reminder that took us two years to get through. Never too old or knowledgeable for a reminder.
The gospel ministry is not just what we do for lost people, the gospel ministry is who we are and what we do because of who we are.
Pastor Shawn Gray · 28:19
Notice that he doesn't say to the church in Rome, you guys are not anything like the church in Corinth, I wrote them some letters, that's some Bible humor there, and that is lost on you should go read some Corinthian books there, because he rebukes. He doesn't say to the church in Rome, you guys really got it together, and so, you know what, we're going to get into some meatier subjects. That's not what he says. He still lays out a reminder of the gospel. Why?
Because remembering the gospel has great power.
Pastor Shawn Gray · 29:08
See, in the church we put such an emphasis on proclaiming the gospel for the first time, and we fail to remind people of the gospel, and we think that this is more powerful and more important than reminding, but both save, for the gospel has the power to save. It doesn't say, "for the gospel has the power to save all those pagans out there who don't even know him." It says the gospel has the power to
Point 5Parents must share the gospel at home
Save. So we should be preaching the gospel.
Parents, listen to me today: if you're only waiting for your children to come here and hear the gospel and you're not sharing the gospel around your table, you're missing out on the power of the gospel saving them.
Pastor Shawn Gray · 29:58
Through the week, what is your role? What parent would go to a wave pool, be standing on the side of a wave pool, they've closed most of them down, is the one still working here in, wherever, land, Wonderland, Worlds of Fun, Oceans of Fun, you know I mean, like, I don't know, but if you, I've almost drowned a couple times in a wave pool when I was a kid, right? It's like you go up under the tubes, so many people you can't get back up under the tubes, you know what I mean? There's people everywhere. But what parent would stand on the sideline, see the waves, see their kid, see their kid struggling, I mean, because we're at least parents, we're at least aware enough to know that if our kids are breathing, they're struggling. Are you so inept as a parent that you think that your kid isn't struggling at all? We should be having conversations about the gospel in cars.
What parent would stand on the sideline, see their kids struggling in a wave pool, and be like, well, hold on till Sunday,
Pastor Shawn Gray · 31:22
and then hope that your pastor will show up on Sunday and throw a life preserver from the sidelines? Hold on, Johnny, swim a little longer, pastor will be here in five days.
It's not just Paul's mission. I mean, it is Paul's mission, I mean it is, but it's the church's mission. Well, I'm just trying to get my kid, you know, carry a Bible to school, be Christ to school. Some of you don't even try to do that.
How do you think carrying his Bible to school does any good if he don't even know what's in there? When was the last time you talked about what was in there, parent? Or is your path at parenthood to just wait until, Johnny, I mean, just wait till the pastor shows up, and or maybe it isn't the pastor, because, you know, your kid's up here, maybe it's Pastor J.R. And the team that's down there, they're teaching them in Rock City, maybe just hang on and don't drown and don't die and just hang on and survive, because Pastor J.R. Will show up next Sunday and he'll help you survive a little longer. What is the parents' role in this? Because if the gospel only saves on Sunday at Rock City and up here in big-boy church, then that's an anemic gospel, and then what is our role? Because if I have this and it sits over here through the week and I never touch it as a parent, then I'm choosing to let my kid die, knowing that's the only thing that saves. Why am I choosing to let them die?
Because unless I proclaim it to them, how can I proclaim it if it just sits on my counter and I never open it? Are you with me today? There was a thing I said today, and I think a lot of people in church are liars when they start to do polls that question their Christianity, so I don't even think half of them tell the truth anyway, but out of all the people who were lying, these were the numbers: 70 percent look at Facebook every day, less than 30 percent look at their Bible every day. These are people who claim to be Christians. So in other words, as a parent, you would rather your kid drown and die in life and sacrifice your children on Facebook time over Bible time. Are you with me today? That's insane. That's insanity of the highest form. Now what am I saying? Am I trying to guilt you? Yes, because there is this illusion and idea in our culture and then the greater evangelical church that this is the duty of pastors and the greater big-boy church has no role or responsibility. Notice he's reminding them. He says you're of all knowledge and you can teach all people. Well, I don't have a degree. Well, neither did they. Parents, you can be bold and you can preach the gospel with boldness because it saves your children's lives. This is not something we do as a, I don't know, activity of the church. It's something we do like breathing, because it's essential to life. He writes boldly. He reminds them. Now notice that he didn't, well, anyway. Now I want to move on, I want to talk about a couple other things. Those are really the big things, but I want to talk about a few other things that I think are important and then we'll close out, right? Apostles, they were graced by God to preach the gospel. Notice they were laying a foundation, right? Their words had power to save because they were preaching exactly what God told them to do. They were not preaching your CliffsNotes and culturally relevant version of the gospel. Church denominations are splitting currently because they have a cliffsNotes, culturally relevant version of the gospel right now, making it palatable for more men, but that doesn't save and it doesn't have power. It merely makes people comfortable in their death and on their way to eternal death and damnation. There is a large difference between a gospel that has power to save and that which tucks people in their dead, rotting position, hoping they'll be comfortable as they journey towards damnation.
Those are not the same, and you can call this love all you want, it's hate and it's a behavior of Satan.
Pastor Shawn Gray · 37:49
It is not God's love. That's important, and I know that's bold, but I think it's true, so I think I can speak it with that. But it was the apostles who were graced to preach the gospel, so whenever you begin to share the gospel, make sure you're using the apostles' words, not your own. Are you with me today? Paul even goes and sits before, now Paul, so this is the Apostle Paul, the Apostle Paul who wrote most of the New Testament, at the very beginning of his ministry, Paul goes and sits before the other apostles for a period of three years to ensure that the gospel he was preaching was the same gospel as the other apostles. Three years. He further, later on, goes back seven years later and does the same thing again to make sure that he's not off base, and he's doing so because although Paul was an eyewitness through a vision of Christ, that was a requirement of being an apostle, they were people who walked with Christ in the flesh, and he wanted to ensure that what he was preaching was in alignment with what the other apostles were saying, because they were graced and he was graced to make sure they were laying a foundation that we would be benefactors of in the church, and it is their words that have power, not ours, and ultimately God's words through them that had power. Now not one of you here today, not one of you can go sit before the apostles and make sure that the gospel you're sharing is the same gospel. Not one of you can do that. We don't need to, because we have this. Are you with me? We have this.
Paul was an apostle and he sat before the apostles. You're not an apostle. Are you a part of the 80 percent who never picks it up? What do you expect to do when your child is drowning through the week?
That's okay. You mean you think you're going to, you think this is a life preserver? That's okay, Johnny, you can make it, you're doing good, great job, hurrah, keep it up, keep trying, try harder. You think a chance of encouragement from the sidelines saves? You think flattery saves? You're the best dog paddler I've ever seen, you're awesome. Remember what we learned, the power of positive thinking? How's that going to save you? How's that going to save you? See, does that save? See, some of us think that saves more than the gospel. You know why? Why? Because you haven't heard the gospel.
That's why. And until the gospel does its work in you won't value the gospel enough to share it in a way where it can do its work in your children, and really dinner time will be all about their achievements and nothing about God's and Christ's for you.
Are you with me now, parents? I know it's awesome. How is your day today? I know that's good, we should know how our kids' day was. Let me ask you a question: when's the last time you told them about what Christ did for them? Man, that's boring, I don't want to be a fuddy-duddy parent.
Rather you be a fuddy-duddy parent than your kid go to hell.
Pastor Shawn Gray · 42:39
Yeah, but it'll be fun while we go there and I'll be cool. Wow, this is harsh. If you're a parent and you don't feel convicted, because I do. I do. I got two kids in here, they know what we do at dinner time. The issue used to be about what you talk about at dinner time. The issue now is, do you even have dinner together? The reality is, as a parent you would never release your child into the wild and be like, hope you make it, but that's what we do every night at dinner time. Okay, I mean, that convicts me. All right, so Paul goes and sits before them, goes back seven years later.
We have the word, which is the gospel.
The reason we have lost boldness today is because we are not speaking God's word, we are speaking our own,
Pastor Shawn Gray · 43:58
which is why I have found new value in expository preaching.
The Bible is good enough on its own. It's good enough.
Pastor Shawn Gray · 44:09
It's good enough. I have 33 seconds. 32, 31, 30, 29, that's really fast. 28, did y'all speed that up? 24, 23, 22, no, that's actually good. No, what? 21, 20, 1 million, 19, 1 million, 18, 1 million, how, what is it, 81? I'm totally confused. Mississippi 11, Mississippi 10, mississippi 9, Mississippi 8, Mississippi 7, that's really fast. That's fast. It's all a lie, straight from the pit.
Let me encourage you with this: if you get bored with the gospel, you might not believe the gospel.
Pastor Shawn Gray · 45:01
If you are bored with the gospel, you might believe another gospel. If you don't think the gospel saves in all circumstances, you might not.
I really want you to grasp this as you go home today. I want you to look for opportunities to share the gospel, not just to people who don't know it but as a reminder to those who do. Why do I want you to do that? Because the gospel saves. And listen to this, see, if you think that the gospel saves the people who are receiving it and not the people who are delivering it, you once again miss the power of the gospel, because it's not a unilateral expression. It is always bilateral. So the person giving it is saved and the person receiving it is saved. So oftentimes it's not just, well, did I sit under the gospel so that I can be saved, so I can deliver it and somebody else will be saved? It doesn't just go point to point, like a dot to dot where you're trying to draw a picture, it's bilateral, it's multilateral. So it is simply the proclamation of the gospel that saves everyone in its presence. So some of you parents who think that you're preaching the gospel so that your children will be saved will learn in the process that you are saved as well, more and more day by day, by the expression of it.
The gospel has the power to save, not just one way, not just to one group of people, but every time the gospel is preached, it saves.
Pastor Shawn Gray · 47:16
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