which gospel is best for unbelievers

[Worship Warriors]

best gospel for unbelievers

 

Mathew is written to the disciples. John is written to the church ( even though it contains the famous John 3:16). Luke is far too long.

 

Mark is a gospel more for the unbeliever. It’s the shortest gospel and it’s straight to the point. This is Jesus the Son of God. This is what he came to do: to minister and to lay down his life as a sacrifice for sins. Then God has raised him from the dead and exalted him to sit at His own right hand.

A righteous man took on your guilt and rebellion so that you the guilty can go free. If you receive His sacrifice and give your heart to him, you will pass from death to life and receive the gift of eternal life. But if you refuse his sacrifice, who is going to pay for your sins? There is a justice system in the courts of heaven. God cannot just say I forgive you, sweep it under the rug, otherwise He would not be just.

What is your response?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 28, 2019 by Worship Warriors

[Tzephanyahu]

Shalom @Worship Warriors,

Interesting topic.  I agree with you in a lot of ways.

Personally, I recommend them as follows:

• Matthew - To non-believing Jews (as Matthew was)
• Mark - To non-believers who are poor/suffering/desperate. Also to the half-Jew, half-Gentile (as Mark was!)
• Luke - To non-believing Gentiles (as Luke was)
• John - To believers, new and experienced.  But it's not my recommendation to non-believers, in general, as it's far too spiritual for your typical atheist.   

Thankfully this is just my opinion though, so no needs to be offended  

Love & Shalom

[Spock]

Hands down.......JOHN

Imo, This gospel shows Jesus as Lord better than the other three. And right off the bat in chapter one, it presents Jesus as God....no confusion. 

[shortangel]

this is very interesting,   I never thought of Mark's Gospel as being a good start to share your faith

[Reinitin]

2 hours ago, Worship Warriors said:

best gospel for unbelievers

 

Mathew is written to the disciples. John is written to the church ( even though it contains the famous John 3:16). Luke is far too long.

 

Mark is a gospel more for the unbeliever. It’s the shortest gospel and it’s straight to the point. This is Jesus the Son of God. This is what he came to do: to minister and to lay down his life as a sacrifice for sins. Then God has raised him from the dead and exalted him to sit at His own right hand.

A righteous man took on your guilt and rebellion so that you the guilty can go free. If you receive His sacrifice and give your heart to him, you will pass from death to life and receive the gift of eternal life. But if you refuse his sacrifice, who is going to pay for your sins? There is a justice system in the courts of heaven. God cannot just say I forgive you, sweep it under the rug, otherwise He would not be just.

What is your response?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John 17 around verse 28.. Jesus prayed for him to be in us and his salvation for all those who believe the message he gave his diciples to give to the world.

So to me personally. For His prayer to be a prayer to be answered for someone personally. They probably need to hear the diciples out and believe them..

I straight up do not believe in the Roman road, salvation fast food delivery service. I have seen way to many people locked in that man made comtrol system destroyed by their sin and completly powerless over tbeir flesh in that faith (Not all but many). Because it pretty much gets "some" people to disregard the diciples message and mis out on the power of Jesus's pray for us while he was here in the world.

I think you have to hear a person out before you can fully decide if you completley  believe them. 

So in my, follow the instruction recieve the promise understandings. If you hear the diciples out and believe them. Jesus recorder his prayer and it is for you, and for your salvation. 

And I know God answers Jesus's prayers. And that is the only prayer I have seen from him that is specifically, personally prayed for you or me for anyone to be given His Spirit and it for those that believes his diciples.

So if you want to reject this diciples message or that diciples message because they are not talking to you. Right there in John 17;28ish Jesus is talking to God about you if you want to be born again by his Spirit and have Christ in you, which is our hope to share in his glory. Jesus is telling you right there who to listen to and believe.

So many people just shuffle right past John 17:3 seeking eternal life by this formula or that formula, offering this hack into Christ and that hack into Christ, seeking to know a doctrin(teaching of man) instead of seeking to know God which is our eternal life. Christ in us making God our Father known to us.

Edited June 28, 2019 by Reinitin

[GandalfTheWise]

7 hours ago, Worship Warriors said:

What is your response?

It depends on the person.  For someone who is more of an artist, abstract thinker, or about relationships, I'd lean toward John.  For a more concrete  thinker, I'd probably go with one of the synoptic gospels. Mark's a solid choice for many.   I'd probably steer away from Matthew simply because it starts with genealogies that are likely relatively meaningless to most people.   Someone with a background from a mainline church might start connecting with Luke right away since most have heard the Christmas story but likely never read it all for themselves.    Also, Luke does seem to write for a Gentile audience who are not completely familiar with Jewish customs.    Overall, I'd just try to discern what would be best for a particular individual.

[Spock]

1 minute ago, GandalfTheWise said:

It depends on the person.  For someone who is more of an artist, abstract thinker, or about relationships, I'd lean toward John.  For a more concrete  thinker, I'd probably go with one of the synoptic gospels. Mark's a solid choice for many.   I'd probably steer away from Matthew simply because it starts with genealogies that are likely relatively meaningless to most people.   Someone with a background from a mainline church might start connecting with Luke right away since most have heard the Christmas story but likely never read it all for themselves.    Also, Luke does seem to write for a Gentile audience who are not completely familiar with Jewish customs.    Overall, I'd just try to discern what would be best for a particular individual.

You always live up to your name, brother!  ????

[simplejeff]

8 hours ago, Worship Warriors said:

What is your response?

hahaha -  I just had to laugh that "Luke is too long" .....    LUKE'S PERFECT !  (as are all SCRIPTURE!)

Rather,   what CONVICTS the person,  believer OR unbeliever,  to anguish for their sinful life, to Godly sorrow,  and to repentance away from their selfish way of life ?   Artist through Zoologist,   Preacher or Teacher,   Banker or Carpenter,  Doctor or Nurse,  Tax Collector or Thief or Prostitute .......

Who will give up their way of life to live the Way God Says to - self-sacrificially ,  obediently, faithfully every day ?

Which 'Gospel' will they 'listen' (or see) to ,  if any , ever ?

[GandalfTheWise]

21 minutes ago, Spock said:

You always live up to your name, brother!  ????

Thanks.    I'm not sure where this comes from:   Good judgement comes from experience;  experience comes from bad judgement.  

I've spent a lifetime doing a lot of teaching of various things in different contexts to a range of audiences and classes.  It sadly took me about 25 years to slowly figure out that the best thing I could do when teaching was not to come up with the best possible curriculum and teaching methods but rather to adapt what I was doing to each individual student to turn them into an independent learner.   It's not about maximizing the performance of a single method for a crowd.  It's about individually picking what methods to use for maximizing what each individual can do.  When I now hear some variation of "what is the best way to do ABC for people?", I realize what I often should be asking is "what is the best way to do ABC for a particular person?" 

[simplejeff]

Righteous judgment, good judgment,  is only source from God ,  not from experience (worldly).