Friday, February 17, 2012

Gospel of the Kingdom vs the Gospel of the Grace of God

From Brother Wally White;

 I recently attended a mens bible study and matthew 6 was the topic for our discussion . after we read the chapter we discussed the aspect of giving per the Lords teaching. One of the brothers brought up the fact that Jesus was at this point in time teaching the gospel of the kingdom , Not the gospel of grace as per pauls epistles . It was pointed out that at this time Jesus said he was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of israel ( Mt 15:24 ) The church was not even mentioned until Mt. 16:18 and it was a future event . We now know the church was not officially established until the day of pentecost in acts 2;1-5 . It was brought to the attention that apostle paul was the first to teach the gospel of grace ( which he called "my gospel " ) and that that the epistles are the only place that NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH doctines are taught. In our meeting about one half of the men in attendance were offended by this ! I would like to submit this to the blog for discussion . Can we teach new testament church doctrine from kingdom of heaven doctine ? Would love to hear others opinion on this !

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