What exactly is the true Gospel message?

Question

In Galatians 1:8-9, it is written:
“But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!”

So, certainly this is an extremely serious matter!

Therefore, let’s say you encountered a person who had never even heard of God’s laws, sin, hell, heaven, Jesus, or the Bible...

How exactly would you share the Gospel with them?

I.e. What exactly IS the true Gospel message?

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Answer 1

My dear sir, one does not exactly know what they are going to say, or where they are going to start concerning the message of the gospel. Some i have told from the beginning of Gen. to the ressurection of Christ...,some, all i have had to speak about was Jn3:3-5, and explain this to them..others, we talked about what God considered sin to be, and His cure..some, all i had to do was to sing songs at one of my concerts..and they came forward without a call...and desired prayer to give their heart to the Lord...another, was concerned about going to hell, and we talked at his home for a while over a cup of coffee..and later that night, him and his wife prayed without anyone being there, and showed up for church next time the doors were open...i have many, many accounts such as this..i have had people come to me on the sidewalk and kneel down there and pray before i came home from the store walking..and i never said a word to them...or knew their name...just prayed to invite Jesus into their life...on street corners, churches, grassy fields, homes, cars, and i never had to coax them or anything..just tell them with a smile, and be honest with them...and real...of course..Jesus does the saving..i am only His mouth-piece.....

Answer 2

Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures. . . he was buried and rose again the third day (1 Corinthians 15:3,4)
We have to try to be "all things to all people" when sharing it. What makes it hard is that, unless the Holy Spirit is working on that person, he/she will not understand that they are a sinner (repent = change one's mind about sin) who has offended God (Romans 3:10 and 3:23). A lot of prayer should go into it beforehand.
I usually tell people to ask the Lord into their life (Romans 10:13). Although eternal life is a free gift, it must be received (Romans 6:23, John 1:12, Ephesians 2:8, and John 3:16). Having said all that, it's really a mystery to me how people get saved. My own experience, and it sounds really stupid, is that I didn't believe until I believed.

Answer 3

The 'other Gospel' that Paul was referring to was back when the churches were being establish and the testimony of Jesus was being preached, the Jewish Pharisees who trying to hold onto their place in Religious circles and the Roman government were telling the new Christians they also had to follow the old Laws of the Old Testament. Which is NOT we have to do, Jesus fulfilled and put to death ALL of the old laws. We DON'T have to be circumcised, we DON'T have to stay away from certain meats, We DON'T have to kill an animal as an atonement for our sins, Jesus did that once and for all on the Cross. We DON'T have to follow Jewish or any other religious custom or tradition. We DON'T have to do anything in works to be saved. The ONLY thing we have to do is accept God's grace and Salvation. The Gospel; that Jesus was sent from the Father, lived in the flesh on the earth. Was crucified on the cross for our sins. He died, was buried and was raised from the dead and now sits at the Right Hand of the Father. And is now our Lord and Savior. all we have to do is believe that in our hearts, call on the name of Jesus, confess Him as Lord and we are saved. Period. Jesus paid the price for our sins, He took our punishment. All we have to do is believe that and accept it and put our faith in Him, and turn from our sins. That's the Gospel, NO strings attached as the Pharisees were trying to do, as some religious circles are still trying to do. There is no "Hail Marys", NOTHING else. You DON'T have to confess your sins to a priest, he can't forgive. He doesn't have the authority ONLY God does. You only have to confess your sins to God the Father, no one else. And once we come to the grace, if we mess up the ONLY we need to do is confess the sin before God the Father and promises to cleanse and forgive us. And it's those religious circles are why so many of us are dropping out of the 'traditional' church and looking for the church that was started in Acts. Back to true fellowship with the Lord and each other. We support a preacher's ministry not his car and house payments. We go to the non-denominational church so we can BE in the presence of God, not a credit card number in the middle of a evangelist's empire.

Answer 4

The good news of the Kingdom of God.

This Kingdom was in planning and preparation "from the foundation of the world." Jesus, "the Son of Man," will be the King of this Kingdom. This is what Jesus announced and was the heart of his message!

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I like the following 7 points:
Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Old Testament of the coming Redeemer.
Jesus Christ is the Messiah.
Jesus Christ lived a perfect sinless life for us. He conquered sin for us.
Jesus Christ died for my sins, once and for all.
Jesus Christ rose from the dead. He conquered death that I might have eternal life.
Jesus Christ ascended to heaven where He is interceding for me. He tells me to stop sinning, yet if I do sin and repent, He is interceding his blood before the Father and will forgive me.
Jesus Christ is coming back to take His people home to heaven.

Answer 5

I usually direct them to the Gospel of John where I believe the true gospel message is presented in its purest form.

In short I think John 3:16 - a verse everyone knows by heart - sums it up nicely.

Answer 6

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 says, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.”

Answer 7

That there is a God who loved us so much that he sent his
Son Jesus to die for them and all so that we could have a way to the Father and we saved from a devil,s Hell and
live in Heaven for eternity with the father.

Answer 8

1 Corinthians 15:1-4:


You are saved if you believe that Jesus died for our sins on the cross as the scriptures say (apart from our works added, and Jesus being God), and rose again.

Answer 9

this is an easy one

65 churches in my town alone thinking they have the one true christian gospel

41,560 current variations of Xianity to date and growing, each thinking and needing the rest to be "the other Jesus and false one"

no wonder we fight so much and need wars or invasions to help us get through life as a convenient distraction

Answer 10

Gods free salvation plan