{"id":6048,"date":"2021-05-17T04:25:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T04:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6048"},"modified":"2021-05-17T04:25:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T04:25:14","slug":"is-our-message-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6048","title":{"rendered":"Is Our Message Offensive?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>s Our Message Offensive?<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul called his message&nbsp;<em>\u201cthe offense of the cross\u201d (Galatians 5:11)<\/em>.&nbsp; Again and again he warned that the true Gospel of God\u2019s grace and glory would meet with great opposition from the religious world and the natural world.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>\u201cThe preaching of the cross is foolishness\u201d (I Corinthians 1:18).&nbsp; \u201cThe natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God\u201d (I Corinthians 2:14).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Lord said,&nbsp;<em>\u201cMarvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you\u201d (I John 3:13).&nbsp;<\/em>He also said,&nbsp;<em>\u201cThey shall put you out of the synagogues&nbsp;<\/em>(organized religion)<em>: yea the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service\u201d (John 16:2).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>If what we preach is NOT offensive to the religionist and to the worldling, then it is NOT THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.&nbsp; I repeat, it is not the Gospel!&nbsp;&nbsp;~Todd Nibert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>s Our Message Offensive?&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Paul called his message&nbsp;\u201cthe offense of the cross\u201d (Galatians 5:11).&nbsp; Again and again he warned that the true Gospel of God\u2019s grace and glory would meet with great opposition from the religious world and the natural world.&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThe preaching of the cross is foolishness\u201d (I Corinthians 1:18).&nbsp; \u201cThe natural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,65,44,112,130,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-todd-nibert","category-gospel-offence","category-gospel-preaching","category-gospel-separation","category-preaching","category-false-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6049,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions\/6049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}