Romans 1:16 The Gospel is the message that God has left for His church to proclaim. It is the most powerful message in the world, it is the only message that can save, transform, heal and deliver. When preached under the anointing of the Holy Spirit there is nothing in this world that can compare to the power of the Gospel. No power in hell can withstand it, nuclear power or the power of the army or the power of the mighty dollar, cannot and do not come close to the power that the church has been left with. The Gospel has everything to do with Jesus, the cross, the resurrection, the blood of Christ and the entirety of the word of God etc.
Given that the Gospel is the power of God and the only answer for a dying world, it would be correct to state that the number one reason for the existence of the church is to be the mouth piece for God in the proclamation of the Gospel to a hurting and lost world.
The question must be asked, what is the message that the church is proclaiming today? And why in so many churches is the proclamation of the Gospel not evident at all?
Sadly today the church has become so caught up in being relevant, accepted, hip and cool, that in the process it has compromised the proclamation of the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. What hope is there for a dying world when the church has lost its meaning of existence and the only desire of the church is to be relevant? We are not called to be relevant, we are called to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ without fear or intimidation no matter what society or the culture deems as current or relevant. The apostles of the early church would go into a city and care not for the culture or the opinions of man, they just turned up and preached the Gospel in all its power and authority, therefore we see a powerful church that was causing havoc on the devils kingdom, time and time again you read that they went into a city and preached the Gospel, we must urgently come back to this if we are to see what they saw. Enough with trying to fit in and be the flavour of the month, it is time for preachers of the Gospel all over the world to rise up and cry out ‘thus says the Lord’.
You go into so many churches and you would be forgiven for thinking that you were in any other place but a church. The simple reason for this is because everything under the sun is done and the true Bible Gospel never gets a mention. Oh yes there is the odd and I mean the odd mention of Jesus in the songs and in the talk (No longer are they sermons) but that is as close as they get, there is no repentance, no mention of the cross and of the reality that a person without Christ is lost, in sin and in need of a saviour and His name is Jesus. Many would say that Gospel is to confronting.
They want to make sure the music is attractive and entertaining, for this to happen they have to incorporate more and more worldly and extreme styles of music and rhythms to keep the people happy and to satisfy the flesh, and I say that what you bring people in to church with is what you will have to keep them with.
The preacher or motivator as they are now called, makes every effort to not offend any body or sound to preachy, in doing so the Gospel is evidently absent from his message and even as in many places the reading of scripture, given that the Gospel and the Bible in its completeness will offend people.
Why is this happening? I believe it is one reason and one reason alone; many are ashamed of the Gospel. They suggest and think that it is not a cool message, it will not draw the crowds, they are ashamed to say that Jesus and Jesus alone can save and set people free.
The church is ashamed of the Gospel and therefore the church has lost the power.
The Apostle Paul says in the text for this article “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the POWER of God unto SALVATION to every one that believeth”
The Gospel is the power of God unto salvation. If we want the power to flow, the Gospel must be our message; if we want salvation to be real, then the Gospel must be our message. This verse is not just talking about salvation to the lost whom are without Christ, it talks also about a salvation for the Christian in need in his or her journey, this is health, deliverance, breakthrough and provision. For the word salvation means, rescue, safety, deliver, health, wholeness and restoration. In coming to this realization so much of what goes on today in the church would be stopped, people go here and there, convention after Convention and Method after Method looking for an answer to their bondage, struggles and needs, all the while the answer is in front of them.
We must understand that what saved us will keep us saved and that is the power of the Gospel.
It is time for the church to not be ashamed of the Gospel and to understand that our greatest business and ministry is to proclaim and present the Gospel just as it is, not watered done and no added to, in doing this the power of God will be manifested and He will complete the Gospel with signs, wonders and miracles, for the only message that God anoints and backs up with all His power is the message of the Gospel.
Preachers, get alone with God and allow this Gospel message to saturate your whole being and for God who is the giver of the message to burn His word in you, then you will get up to preach the Gospel with such power, passion and conviction, that will give every opportunity to those listening to receive salvation. People will either receive the message or reject it, but they will know that they have heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ preached through the lips of an earthen vessel.
May the Lord help us to never be ashamed and to never compromise the Gospel, and when people walk into our churches they are immediately aware that they are in a church that has the proclamation of the Gospel and the lifting up of Jesus as its main desire. If people like it good, if not they must understand that they are in a church and in a church we lift up Jesus, we sing to his name, we lift up our hands and we preach the Gospel.
God bless.
Word Of Power 
