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The Truth of the Gospel

Christine Platt - Thursday 22 January 2015

We've been reading through Galatians during our daily prayer time in the office. The apostle Paul is fighting to preserve the truth of the Gospel. He's not willing to have any additions contaminate the pure Gospel he received by revelation and was confirmed by the church leaders in Jerusalem (Gal 2:6). He was willing to publicly confront the apostle Peter as he strayed into error (Gal 2:11). Paul says of anyone who changes the Gospel message: "let him be accursed" (Gal 1:8-9)

It's so important that we tell people the good news and that we get it right! We have to really fight against our natural tendency to add things to the message. In Paul's day the Jewish believers wanted to add circumcision and the law of Moses - which was so unhelpful for the gentile believers. What are we adding to the Good News which is placing an unnecessary barrier between our neighbours and God?

When I think that 100,000 hours of GRN recordings was downloaded from the internet last year, plus what has been played from CDs, Sabers, mp3 players and other sources I realise how important it is that our scripts are good and our recordists well trained. We want people to be hearing the truth of the Gospel as they listen to our recordings, not truth mixed with error.

Please pray for our script committee and script writers, for our recordists and their trainers, and for our language helpers and translators. Pray that our recordings would faithfully convey the truth of the Gospel to those who listen and that any errors which have made their way into the recordings would be discovered and fixed.

Pray for the church, that she would be faithful to the Gospel and intolerant of additions and errors in the message.