The Bravehearted Gospel is a book, yes. But it’s more than a book - it’s an idea.
And it’s an idea that has found residence in countless thousands of souls in recent years. There’s a vast host of Christians today that feel a longing for something more, a hunger for the manly grit and epic grandeur of the Gospel to return to the Church.
There is a gnawing feeling in many souls today, that something just isn’t right – something is askew in modern concept of Christian practice. It’s polished, but it’s not powerful. It’s showy but it has no substance. It’s warm and inviting, but it doesn’t seem to work at the tire tread level of life.
This feeling has eaten at many of us. Some of us have learned to cover it well. We continue in the routine, but remain dissatisfied, craving something more noble and vigorous. Meanwhile, others of us have not held in our frustrations very well, and we have often found ourselves in heated discussions pleading for something to change. But, as a whole, we have often struggled knowing if this painful canker (of which we seemed destined to bear) was born out of our stubbornness or our personal dogmatic preferences. Are we just contrarians, or do we actually have a bone fide issue? For to even think such things about the Church – to feel such concern, has been defined to us as judgmental and unloving in our present day. And, many of us have dared not speak a dissenting word against the system, though we have been burdened with the ache of Gethsemane in our hearts.
Many of us, that unite here at braveheartedgospel.com, have seen the moral compromise within the congregation of saints, and it deeply pains us. We have detected the erosion of sound doctrine from the present-day “Christian” music, books and pulpits, and it startles us. And we have seen the Word of God grow less and less preeminent in the life of the Church, and, to be frank, this angers us.
The Bravehearted Gospel is a reminder for all of us that walk this lonely narrow road, that we are definitely not alone in our journey. This is a site designed to affirm, encourage, and inject a shot of fresh adrenaline into the bloodstream of all you burdened believers out there.
The Bravehearted Gospel is a growl, a grrr of soul. It’s a grit and growl that emanates all throughout the Bible. As we like to say around here, it’s Job chapter 29, it’s Elijah on Mt. Carmel, it’s David picking a fight with Goliath, and it’s Jesus grabbing a whip and strolling white-knuckled into the Temple. It’s being purposeful to add the holiness, the purity, the pruning, and the suffering back into the Christian life. It’s not a replacement for love, kindness, mercy, and forgiveness – no! It’s bringing back the complete picture of strength, providing a balance to the soft dimensions of the modern church (which can be very good) with a healthy dose of the hard dimensions of the Gospel Life that are essential to seeing Christianity actually work. It’s regaining the grand and epic elements of Gospel living. It’s a refusal to downplay and explain away the promises of Scripture, and a fiery scrap to see a return of the Church Triumphant!
The Bravehearted Gospel is more than a website, it’s a message.
It’s a call to right this ship. It’s a proclamation of the Great and Mighty news of Salvation. It’s a rescue operation to save souls, to lay down our lives for the weak, to father the orphan, to feed the hungry, and to heroically serve the outcast. The Bravehearted Gospel is a call to big living – a version of living wholly empowered by the Spirit of Almighty God.
It is our desire that this website will help you better enunciate the Truth, more powerfully live out the wholly abandoned life of faith and love we are called to, more effectively recognize the dangerous wolves currently preying on the flock of God, and help you better learn to digest the rejection that certainly will come as you bring the age-old message of repentance to our modern world.
I hope and pray that you find this website an encouragement. Yes, it may be a bit uncomfortable in spots, a bit prickly with conviction. But, please remember, it was built with love just for you, dear friend.
Solo Deo Gloria,
Eric Ludy
