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We Must Share the Gospel Out Loud

Way back in Exodus chapter 4, a mission-resisting Moses asked God, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?” Then the Lord said to him, ‘What is that in your hand?’ ‘A staff,’ he replied. The Lord said, ‘Throw it on the ground.’ Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it.

In the Old Testament God took an ordinary stick and infused it with divine power. Moses used that empowered stick to deliver the Israelites from the tyranny of Egypt and the hatred of Pharoah.

In the New Testament God took a simple set of propositions, the Gospel, and infused it with divine power. For two millennia he has used this empowered message to deliver millions upon millions from the tyranny of sin and hatred of Satan.

Too many, like Moses, run from the thought that God can take the ordinary and make it extraordinary. But he can and he does.

He did it with Moses’ staff and he does it with the Gospel message.

1 Corinthians 1:18 makes a powerful statement, “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.” The word “foolishness” in the Greek is “moria.” It is where we get our English word “moronic.”

To the world, the propositional message of the Gospel is “moronic.” It is too simple. It is too narrow. But, according to God’s Word, it is simple faith in this simplistic message that saves us (2 Thessalonians 2:13).

What’s exciting about this “out loud with words” set of propositions is that it can and should lead to real equality (Galatians 3:28). This is exactly what unfolded in the early church.

And, yes, we need some real work in this area. We need to give some serious attention to living out the powerful implications of this message in our lives, our churches and our communities.

So let’s live out the implications of the Gospel in our lives and let’s share the message of the Gospel with our lips. For help in sharing this message (out loud with words) download our Dare 2 Share apps!

Together, let’s live it and let’s give it!

This article originally appeared here.