Hello Brother Gokhan. I would say your right in that you are unlearning bad teaching. But on the other hand the "save me gospel" does have elements of truth in it. For example, Personal salvation is a goal of Jesus's gospel but at the same time, it is not the chief part of it. I encourage you to take your time with relearning and be careful about jumping to the ditch on the other side of the road. God Bless!
@SeanTanner Thank you Brother this is helping me. I am wondering how would an Early Christian preach the Gospel of the Kingdom to an unbeliever back then, if he has just couple of minutes.
And how should we help other Christians who do not bring fruit for the Kingdom, cause they think no matter what, they are saved?
Hi, honestly I would not forcefully try to imitate the early Christians on that part. They lived in a much different society and would usually point to the fallacies of the Greek religion. That's hardly something today's people take serious.
The early Christians can help us to understand the Bible correctly, but in the end the Bible is our authority and we should be able to prove our points directly from it. I dare say a false Gospel like this could be disproved easily in any serious debate. My advice is to get acquainted with the usually arguments and prove texts and prepare succinct answers to them.
Hmm those are good questions. Have you heard of Strength to Strength? Chuck Pike one of the teachers on here gave a talk about Evangelism in the early Church. As for your second question I think Matthew 18 would be a good starting point.
This is something that my wife and I deal with quite often, since we learned the truth and left the worldy churches. What I try to do is when an opportunity presents itself, I introduce a scripture that points to the truth and then wait for an opportunity to expound on it. We can't force them to accept the truth, but we can properly instruct them with scripture and then allow the Holy Spirit to work it out with them.
It's not always easy to wait, since it is so clear to us, but our job is not to convict them, but to plant the seed. It is the Holy Spirits job to water and Gods job to make it grow. Ultimately though, it's still their choice to accept the truth or reject it.
