But if it  will preach ANYWHERE, preach it EVERYWHERE!

This isn’t a long list of a lot of ‘stuff’ being preached and taught today that won’t preach anywhere you might set foot on this earth. All you need to figure that out for yourself is look around at our planet and the conditions therein concerning the plight of humanity (Christian and non-Christian). If you don’t know those kinds of things, you really need to find out.

The example of New testament scripture, specifically the Apostle Paul, guarantees that this will ‘preach’ anywhere, anytime, under any circumstances:

1Co 1:23  “but we (Paul & company) preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles..”,

1Co 2:1-2  “And I, when I (Paul) came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. “

1Co 15:1-4  “Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you–unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.”

God does not ‘need’ my personal story, nor do I need to soften the ‘hard on the ears of the natural man’ gospel with the ‘benefits package’ of becoming a Christian. In fact, all the secondary ‘good stuff’ might distract the hearer from the core issue of sin and what to do about it. If the hearer ‘accepts’ Christ because of the benefits package (many many ‘conversions’ in many ‘evangelical’ churches these days), and not solely because He was the substitutionary sacrifice for his/her sin, a grave injustice has been done – both to the hearer (supposedly converted), and the precious gospel of Jesus Christ.

Why don’t we need to embellish the simplicity of the true gospel message? Listen to Paul again:

1Co 1:23-24  “but we (Paul & company) preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles..”, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

To the ‘called’, every last one of ’em, the ‘offensive’ gospel is the power, the only power of God for the salvation of man.

So again, if it won’t preach EVERYWHERE, don’t preach it ANYWHERE, but if it  will preach ANYWHERE, preach it EVERYWHERE!