Hint: They aren’t biblical.
The gospel is a narrative of how the Holy God lavishes His grace on us. And that’s worth singing about.
What if the failure of many leaderships is not simply a moral failure, but a weak and failed leadership community?
For many years, 20schemes has desired to create a back-to-work employability project as part of our on-going discipleship.
Scotland’s national unemployment rate (pre-COVID) was 4.5%. In the schemes, it’s anywhere from 25–30%.
A changed community is not the gospel.
The I-Gotta-Get-Myself-Together gospel says: “Clean up the outside before Jesus cleans up the inside.”
Jesus was surrounded by and served toxic people. We’re called to follow Him.
Many people falsely believe their heart will justify them. But the opposite is true.
Tweak the gospel just a bit and you might get a hearing in a lot of congregations. But a tweaked gospel is no gospel at all.
God might be asking you to do something hard or scary, but He will give you everything you need for the task at hand.