simple Gospel

I have been accused of sharing a gospel that is both too complicated and too simple. To the evidence-centric crowd, when they hear that I don't look for some sort of "outward demonstration of an inward reality", they normally accuse me of teaching "easy believism". But I do preach belief as the sole means of salvation - I just believe it to be impossible apart from Grace from God (Ephesians 2:8-9).

On the other hand when I insist that one must believe that Jesus is true Deity, the Only Son of God; God in the Flesh, I am normally accused of being too theological. I am told, "You can't expect people to understand all theology when they get saved". Well, this "theology" is imperative to salvation. For if we do not believe that Jesus is that "I AM" we are told we will die in our Sins. We are believing that Jesus is LORD. Not simply "Lord of my life". Or "my co-pilot", or "my master" -- but when we say LORD we mean it in the sense of the scriptures. That He is THE LORD, or Yahweh. The true and living God. Jesus is LORD (capital letters).

So this the simple gospel we preach. Jesus is THE LORD God, become man, died and buried, rose on the third Day, demonstrated to be the Christ, the Son of God! We preach that we obtain this salvation through belief...not works, not demonstrating a belief, but simply through faith. It is this truth about the Lord Jesus we confess: Who He is (Christ, God-man), and What He has done (Died, Buried, Risen Indeed).

This is our simple gospel that is received by simple means - belief.

Christ is all.