The Promise of Good News

The Gospel is good news, based on promises. There are two kinds of preaching, performance preaching and promise preaching. When the church emphasizes anything over promise alone, you're into transaction not promise. When we sway from promise we enter into bad news. Why? How much performance is enough, how correct is our doctrines, is there a sin consciousness, are we driven to good works and deceived by self-help? These are not based in good news apart from promise. Yet God gave it to Abraham by promise...