All you need now is hear about are sermons about how to work on your marriages how to reach the world for Christ how to study the Scriptures for yourself and how to be better ethical Christians. After which, you don't need to hear about grace anymore.
This is because for many the Gospel Sunday is for outsiders the Gospel is just for unbelievers it's essentially just your entry ticket into heaven. Most fascinating was that the sermons on these Sundays were about the "Gospel." And only on these odd Sundays we would hear the sacrosanct word "Gospel" and its assorted vocabulary such as "grace," "faith," "sin," "redemption" and the "cross." The pastor would ensure that esoteric books such as Leviticus and Amos would be kept in abeyance while the more "evangelistic" passages (John 3:16 being a prime example) would be repeatedly recited right throughout the service. Song lyrics would be filtered through the contemporary worldly thesaurus to ensure that no "thees" or "thous" or "eres" would befuddle the unsaved. Structured with the unbeliever in mind, every aspect of the church's liturgy was stripped to its lowest religious denomination.
When I was growing up, our church would designate the fifth Sunday of the month as Gospel Sunday.
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