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Episode Synopsis
This episode explores what it truly means to preach the Gospel, recovering the original biblical meaning of “gospel” (euangelion) and “apostle” (apostolos) as public proclamations announcing a king and his kingdom—not persuasive sales techniques aimed at emotional decisions. Andrea Schwartz and Charles Roberts argue that modern evangelicalism has shifted away from this kingdom-centered proclamation, replacing it with manipulative or overly-psychological evangelistic methods that produce emotional responses without transformed lives. True preaching, they emphasise, is declaring the kingship of Christ, the reality of sin, the necessity of repentance, and the total life-reordering that comes under God’s law-word.
The hosts stress that proclaiming the Gospel is neither coercion nor marketing—it is telling the truth with certainty and living it consistently, just as Noah did for over a century while preparing for judgment. They highlight that cultural compromises, political conservatism, and pietistic “decisionism” have obscured the Gospel’s demand that individuals and societies submit to Christ’s kingship in every sphere of life. Genuine evangelism teaches people to abandon their self-made operating systems and embrace Christ’s rule, producing visible obedience, transformed worldview, and faithful living amid a culture under judgment.
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