"Just" preach the gospel...?

In my previous podcast I talked about how the primary mission of the church is to preach the gospel. Some people say that the church should ‘just preach the gospel’. I used to agree — then covid happened, and I saw those people giving into everything that the state demanded of us. This called my beliefs into question! How do we ‘just’ preach the gospel, while at the same time standing up against everything that is going wrong politically in the world at the moment?What I’ve come to understand is that I (and many others) had gone wrong in understanding what the gospel is.Sacred Musings is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.My other internet ministry is called Understand the Bible. You can find my sermon on Matthew 9:35-38 here.If you appreciate Sacred Musings, you can help me out in a few ways: 1. Becoming a subscriber - free or paid; 2. Sharing Sacred Musings on social media or with anyone you think might like it; 3. If you’d like to contribute to help keep this running but becoming a paid subscriber is not the right option for you right now, you can give one-off via PayPal. Thank you so much! Get full access to The Bible Uncancelled at bibleuncancelled.substack.com/subscribe