Faithful gospel ministers throughout church history have taken up their God-ordained responsibility to speak the truth to power. Indeed, because the good news of Jesus is nothing less than the power of God unto salvation, faithful servants from every age forthrightly preach the message.

Today, the nations await a new generation of courageous church leaders willing to take their place alongside the giants of the past through gospel-centered preaching. If we want God to send revival and break down cultural idols, we must proclaim the whole counsel of God not only to the people of God, but also to the rulers and authorities of this present age.

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In the following video filmed in Rome, The Gospel Coalition editorial director Collin Hansen highlights the transforming power of God from Paul’s epistle to the Romans and explains how it extends through the church to change the world.

Chris Castaldo (PhD, London School of Theology) serves as lead pastor of New Covenant Church in Naperville, Illinois. He is the author of Talking with Catholics About the Gospel (Zondervan, 2015) and The Upside Down Kingdom: Wisdom for Life from the Beatitudes (Crossway, 2023). Chris blogs at his website.

Collin Hansen serves as vice president for content and editor in chief of The Gospel Coalition, as well as executive director of The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics. He hosts the Gospelbound podcast and has written and contributed to many books, most recently Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation and Rediscover Church: Why the Body of Christ Is Essential. He has published with the New York Times and the Washington Post and offered commentary for CNN, Fox News, NPR, BBC, ABC News, and PBS NewsHour. He edited Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor and The New City Catechism Devotional, among other books. He is an adjunct professor at Beeson Divinity School, where he also co-chairs the advisory board.