正確理解福音核心?

 

頭先喺基督教論壇報見到篇文章: "2025年，美國家庭研究委員會公布一項令人震撼的調查：出席教會聚會的信徒中，僅約三分之一能正確理解福音核心——「悔改罪、接受基督，就能進天堂」。" 

其實, 如果呢個委員會強逼NT Wright答呢份問卷, 佢地會話NT Wright都未能正確理解福音核心.

佢嗰本"Simply Good News: Why the Gospel Is News and What Makes It Good"開頭有一段咁講: 

"In many churches, the good news has subtly changed into good advice: Here’s how to live, they say. Here’s how to pray. Here are techniques for helping you become a better Christian, a better person, a better wife or husband. And in particular, here’s how to make sure you’re on the right track for what happens after death. Take this advice: say this prayer and you’ll be saved. You won’t go to hell; you’ll go to heaven. Here’s how to do it.

This is advice, not news.

The whole point of advice is to make you do something to get a desired result. Now, there’s nothing wrong with good advice. We all need it. But it isn’t the same thing as news. News is an announcement that something significant has happened. And good news is what Jesus and his first followers were all about.

At this point someone will object, 'My church hasn’t forgotten the good news! We know that Jesus died for our sins! He took our punishment so that we could go to heaven! Isn’t that good news? If you thought you were destined for hell and suddenly someone told you God had done something about it, wouldn’t that be good news?'

Well, yes, it would. But—and this is the shocking and difficult thing for many people—that isn’t exactly the good news Jesus and the early church were talking about.

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Yes, the good news is indeed about Jesus, and about his death and resurrection in particular. Yes, this good news does indeed open up a vision of an ultimate future beyond death, so that we live in hope and joy meanwhile. But the usual heaven-and-hell scheme, however popular, distorts the Bible’s good news. Over many centuries, Western churches have got the story wrong."  

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