The Folly Of The Gospel
The Gospel message Jesus left us behind to tell the world is a very powerful message. Untouched and delivered faithfully, it can have an enormous impact on a person’s life. It’s got nothing to do with the charisma or the story telling ability of the person sharing the Gospel – rather there is power behind the message.
Apostle Paul fully understood this power when he penned..
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes..” Rom 1:16a
Through the story of the Gospel, God’s power can break into a persons life and bring salvation into it. However, if you were honest with yourself, the story of a man who lived more than 2000 years ago, did some miracles, was murdered, died for all our sins and was mysteriously resurrected and taken back into heaven seems a little far fetched to base your life on.
And according to the Bible, God loves the “foolishness” of the Gospel message to shatter the “wisdom” of man. To the hard hearted human, the Gospel message seems like utter nonsense – verbal diarrhea – and a great way to ridicule those “simple minded people” who place their trust in such a story.
As Christian’s, we should take delight in the fact that God has purposely designed things to be this way. He is in control and He uses the “folly” of the Gospel to separate those who will believe and those who won’t. Have a read of this…
“For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” 1 Cor 1:18
There it is again, “the power of God.” Embedded into the Gospel message is the power of God. This invisible power has the ability to penetrate a persons heart and soul and bring about change no natural process can explain. We’ve seen it time and time again where a person is confronted with this power – they are never the same again!
For this reason, we should never shrink back in our responsibility to share the Gospel. If we do, we are holding back the power of God to impact a persons life. Will all believe? Nope – actually most will see it as complete nonsense. But to those who God has already begun His work on, whose hearts have been been softened by the Spirit of God, the sharing of the Gospel will allow the power of God to come flooding through.
What an awesome privilege and responsibility God has left us with! Our job is to simply pass the message along, step back and watch the result. And it’s in this context that I share the following video as a great help. Please feel free to pass it along to your friends and family. The direct link can be found here.







