gospel
IPA: gˈɑspʌɫ
noun
- The first section of the Christian New Testament scripture, comprising the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerned with the birth, ministry, passion, and resurrection of Jesus.
- An account of those aspects of Jesus' life, generally written during the first several centuries of the Common Era.
- (Protestantism) The teaching of Divine grace as distinguished from the Law or Divine commandments.
- A message expected to have positive reception or effect, one promoted as offering important (or even infallible) guiding principles.
- (uncountable) That which is absolutely authoritative (definitive).
- (uncountable) Gospel music.
- (Christianity) Alternative form of gospel [The first section of the Christian New Testament scripture, comprising the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerned with the birth, ministry, passion, and resurrection of Jesus.]
verb
- (transitive) To instruct in, declare, or communicate the gospel; to evangelise.
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Examples of "gospel" in Sentences
- He carved in the message of the Gospel.
- Mark is the shortest of the canonical gospels.
- He defended the forensic aspect of the gospel.
- The gospel preaches repentance and forgiveness.
- The Gospel is to the Jew first and then the Gentile.
- The main purpose is to arouse interest in the Gospel.
- It is not related to the lost apocryphal Gospel of the Hebrews.
- The Gospel of the Resurrection then follows, along with a homily.
- The Gospel of Judas is found as a trial to pervert the Gospel of Christ.
- The scope of the gospel is the same as the scope of sin and its effects.
- The Gospel reading is a concatenation taken from all four of the Gospels.
- And second, I believe the word gospel in the context of faith has only one meaning.
- The gospel is a word of grace, the assurance of God's good will to us and the means of his good work in us.
- The word gospel comes from the Anglo-Saxon “god-spell,” i.e., the life of Christ with His message of redemption.
- Christ _may be denied in words; or in works; or by a perversion of the gospel, causing it to become another gospel_.
- In the other evangelists we always have the term gospel while, with one exception, Matthew always puts it "the gospel of the Kingdom".
- The gospel is a word of grace sounding in our ears; but it will be in vain for us to hear it, unless we believe it, and comply with the end and design of it.
- Yes, at the heart of the gospel is an ineradicable triumphalism, a conviction that the victory over evil and death has been won; but it is also a victory yet to come.
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