R.A. Torrey The Gospel for Today: The R.A. Torrey Collection

By R a Torrey

REPEATED and insistent demands for a new volume of evangelistic sermons have been coming to me from pastors, evangelists and publishers. I have felt the force of these demands and at last am yielding to them in publishing this new volume of sermons.These sermons were, for the most part, preached to my own congregation in Los Angeles in the past few months, and God, in His wondrous condescension, has seen fit to bless them to the conversion of a good many persons, the great majority of whom have been men from the ages of twenty-five up to fifty; but there have been some men of riper years converted, even up to seventy or eighty years of age. There have also been some notable conversions among women. We have been greatly interested in the number of Jews and Roman Catholics who have recently made a public profession of accepting Christ in our after-meetings, many of whom have afterwards united with our church, the Church of the Open Door. Not a few of those converted were formerly sceptics, agnostics, infidels and atheists, and quite a number of "Christian Scientists."The Gospel presented in these sermons is the same Gospel of a crucified Christ, a Saviour from the guilt of sin, and a risen Christ, a Saviour from the present power of sin, that we have been preaching throughout our entire ministry as pastor, and as evangelist in all parts of the world. We are certainly living in a New Day. The War and its after-results have worked a radical transformation in the ethical and religious as well as social and economic outlook of the minds of the men and women of the present day; nevertheless, we find that the same Gospel that was "the power of God unto salvation" before the War, and from the days of the Apostle Paul (Rom. 1:16), is the Gospel that men will listen to and yield to today. All of these new gospels, "The Social Gospel" with the rest, are proving utterly ineffective in saving individual men or in lifting up communities. The Real Gospel, when preached in the power of the Holy Spirit, produces the same effects in individual lives to-day, and in the transformation of families and communities, that it has produced throughout all the centuries since our Lord Jesus Christ died on the Cross of Calvary and rose again and ascended to the right hand of the Father and poured out His Holy Spirit upon His people. Practical results prove that that Gospel does not even need to be restated, though of course it is desirable to adapt the illustrations and method of argument to the thinking of our own day.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500947199
• ISBN13: 9781500947194
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"