{
  "title": "Just Preach the Gospel Used to Avoid Moral Witness",
  "slug": "just-preach-the-gospel-used-to-avoid-moral-witness",
  "url": "/modern-traditions-of-men/just-preach-the-gospel-used-to-avoid-moral-witness/",
  "category": "Public Witness and Culture",
  "severity": 3,
  "severity_label": "Level 3 - Serious doctrinal or moral error",
  "summary": "The gospel must remain central, but the phrase just preach the gospel becomes a tradition of men when it is used to avoid obedience, righteousness, repentance, and public truth.",
  "primary_scriptures": [
    "Matt 28:18-20",
    "Luke 24:46-47",
    "Acts 24:25",
    "Titus 2:11-14",
    "Eph 5:11"
  ],
  "key_terms": "euangelion [good news]; matheteuo [make disciples]; dikaiosyne [righteousness]; elencho [expose, reprove]",
  "related_topics": [
    "not-talk-about-politics",
    "mission-reduced-to-social-improvement",
    "compassion-ministries-detached-from-repentance-and-gospel-proclamation",
    "neutrality-toward-public-evil"
  ],
  "tier": "Modern Traditions of Men",
  "translation_links": "NET Bible local reader links are embedded in the HTML page."
}