Not Apostolic

One thing we might take away from last Sunday’s sermon is this: the “Hell-first” version of the gospel is not apostolic. None of the apostles, as far as I can read, tried to convince their listeners of hell, damnation, an angry God, sin-counting, or a Dante’s Inferno with Satan as the living Captain of Industry down there. None of the apostles had the devil getting bigger headlines and more inches than the Savior.

I think it is safe to say that the “hell-first’ message was an invention of the Middle Ages and not at all what any of the apostles preached. Therefore we can safely banish it from our repertoire of gospel messages.

Anybody agree? Disagree? Any challenges? Anybody out there?

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