<p>4:20 <i>For the kingdom of God is not in talk but in power- </i>See on :19. The Gospel of the Kingdom was in both <i>logos </i>&quot;talk&quot; and power; so we are to read this as 'not only in talk, but also in power'. The Gospel demands a response. The Greek word <i>euangelia</i> actually implies this, although the English translation 'good news' may mask it. There is an inscription from Priene in Asia Minor which reads: &quot;The birthday of the god =Augustus was for the world the beginning of <i>good news</i> <i>euangelia</i> owing to him&quot;. The Gospel is not therefore just a proclamation of good news, e.g. an emperor's birthday. <i>Euangelia</i> meant the response to the good news; the good news and the response one must make to it are all bound up within the one word. &quot;For the Gospel of the Kingdom of God is not only in <i>word</i>, but in <i>power</i>&quot; - the Gospel isn't just so many words and ideas, as a life lived. For in the previous verse Paul has argued: &quot;I will know, not the <i>word</i> of them which are puffed up, but the <i>power</i>&quot;, i.e. what their lives show of the things they profess (1 Cor. 4:19,20 RV). And we must ask ourselves whether our personal Christianity is mere words, or the power of a life living out those words.</p>