What Jesus Talked about Most<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\nMatt continues to work innovatively for development in Haiti through an organization called Xcelerant.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
In the article, he expresses frustration over the question most often asked by American Christians when they are considering whether or not to financially support his work:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
“Is Xcelerant a Gospel-centered organization, or just a humanitarian one?”<\/p>\n\n\n
They ask because American Christians are more likely to give money to a ministry which is actively “spreading the gospel” than one “merely” helping the people Jesus came to set free!<\/p>\n\n\n
Our definition of “gospel” is so skewed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
Remember, Jesus came “proclaiming the gospel of the Kingdom”! (Matt 4:23) The Kingdom of God is where everything that is wrong with this world gets set right – in Jesus’ name. And that is THE good news.<\/p>\n\n\n
When we do God’s will – feeding the hungry, healing the sick, setting free the captive – we ARE proclaiming the gospel.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
Matt took an interesting approach in his article.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
He has an engineering mind, so he looked at every one of the 2,024 New Testament verses recording the sayings of Jesus and looked for trends. In the end, Matt found that each verse fit into one of four broad categories:<\/p>\n\n\n
\u2022 56% \u2014 How to live in the Kingdom<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n
\u2022 15% \u2014 What the Kingdom is<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n
\u2022 15% \u2014 Who the King is<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n
\u2022 14% \u2014 Receiving or resisting the King<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n
THIS is what Jesus spent his days talking about.<\/p>\n\n\n
I pray that the American church will wake up and embrace the fullness of the gospel. Until then, we will be missing the vast majority of our opportunities to proclaim it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A week ago, Matt McCormick, a friend from our family’s years in Haiti, started writing on Substack. I found myself resonating deeply with his second post: What Jesus Talked about Most. Matt continues to work innovatively for development in Haiti through an organization called Xcelerant.\u00a0\u00a0 In the article, he expresses frustration over the question most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9896,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9895\/revisions\/9896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}