We share the gospel on Cedar Springs in the heart of Oak Lawn. We want them to know their identity can be something different. They need to hear that the gospel transforms. We have some great conversations there, and sometimes conversations can last up to ½ hour. Most people are willing to listen. However, there are some that are so rebellious that they will not listen. But we’re called to do what we can and that is what we want to do, because we want to see people transformed and saved.
“I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.” 2 Timothy 4:1-5.
We have churches today who do not teach sound doctrine. People have itching ears and they want to continue in their sin. These churches deceive many, because they teach that homosexuality is ok with God and they teach Scripture doesn’t condemn it. This is not true. We need to have good conversations with the homosexual community. We need to tell them that God loves them. But we need to preach the true gospel: Repent and return to God and walk in His ways.
John the Baptist preached the gospel of the Kingdom: “Repent, because the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” The Hebrew word for repent is T’shuva. It means “turn from sin and turn to God.” We often don’t understand the meaning of this fully. It means turn from our own ways and return to God’s ways, His Torah (instruction). Matthew 4:17 tells us that Yeshua taught the same gospel: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.“
Yeshua told the disciples to follow Him, and this is what we’re called to do. We’re called to preach the gospel.
This is why we go to the Oaklawn area of Dallas. We want sound doctrine to overcome false doctrines.
