preaching the Good News

However, in the first century the designation does not seem to have been useful in preaching the good news.

That reminds me of being on electoral campaign, preaching the good news, and sometimes being faced with empty halls.

Christ himself came preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, describing its nature and calling for a response.

It needs to rediscover the latent power of the media in preaching the Good News of justice, freedom and peace.

They endeavour to follow Paul the Apostle's example in preaching the good news of Christ to both Jews & Gentiles:

Peter and the others had been preaching the good news to the people on the shore of Galilee and there was a crowd of perhaps five hundred people waiting for us.

"What a task confronts the American clergy"-laments an Ameri- can divine-"preaching the good news of a Savior to peo- ple who for the most part have no real sense of sin.

In this 'evangelism equals church planting' model, the priority may be seen as a desire to make sure every community throughout the earth is covered by a church that is alive and preaching the good news of Jesus Christ.

It was as Cornelius waited humbly and receptively in prayer, that God's supreme gift, the Holy Spirit, was poured out upon him before ever Peter who was preaching the good news to him, reached the climax of his sermon!

Let me read a few verses, reading first of all from verse twelve it says,that when they believed Philip preaching the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized men and women alike.

At the same time, the Asian participants acknowledged the need to extend and deepen their dialogue with people of different faiths and cultures and to 'rediscover the latent power of the media in preaching the Good News of justice, freedom and peace.'

He arrived in Goa on 6 May 1542 and, after four months of stay in Goa, travelled to Tamil Nadu and worked in Manapad, Tuticorin, Madurai and Madras-Mylapore, preaching the good news of Jesus and founding Catholic communities.