Do Christians Need to Hear the Gospel?

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Jesse Medina

There’s an underlying assumption that goes mostly unnoticed which dramatically affects the nature of so-called Christian preaching: That Christians don’t need to hear the Gospel.  At least not with any degree of regularity. They already know the Gospel, many say.  Why continue to preach something that they already know?!?! A few rhetorical questions in response: [...]

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How to Sell the Son of God (Published on RelevantMagazine.com)

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Jesse Medina

So, a long time ago, back before www.NeueMinistry.com didn’t redirect to www.NeueResources.com, I wrote an article titled, “How to Sell the Son of God.”  When NeueMinistry published it they retitled it “How to Sell Jesus.”  Well, when that site shut down and began redirecting, the article was lost somewhere out there in cyberspace. So, I [...]

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Balancing Tension: Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin

Posted on May 19, 2009 by Jesse Medina

We Christians have many mantras that guide our lives.  Sometimes, our mantras are derived from the very petty (like bumper stickers) and sometimes from the Bible (which we consider to have a mystical authority for the believer and sometimes we use unhelpful language to describe this authority, but that will be an article I write [...]

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Being Called by God: Redefining Normal

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Jesse Medina

I just had an article published on Wrecked.org exploring the call of God and how sometimes the words we use communicate a message that may lead to some unhealthy conclusions for our listeners.. Feel free to check it out and I would love to hear your thoughts! It is titled: Being Called by God: Redefining [...]

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Street Preachers

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Jesse Medina

Just read an article on Wrecked.org about a street preacher on a college campus. The article is titled Why I Don’t Want To Be A Christian Anymore. Check it out. Now, I’m not a big fan of street preachers (or televangelists for that matter) and I’m not sure that I’d go as far as to [...]

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Jesus Wants to Save Christians: Part 1

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Jesse Medina

This will be the first in a series of six posts that center on some thoughts I had while reading Rob Bell’s Jesus Wants to Save Christians. These entries were originally blogged at Conversant Life sometime during 2008. ____ Jesus Wants to Save Christians: What If We’re Wrong on Evangelism? During my sophomore year of [...]

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Hypocrisy

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Jesse Medina

A friend and I were talking recently about cussing around Christians and non-Christians and we both realized an interesting dynamic: we’re both more comfortable cussing around Christians than we are around non-Christians. No, I did not mess up on that sentence. You see, around other Christians especially Christian friends, we know that we won’t be [...]

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