Please show me where I said there was a recipe to follow? I simply said the Gospel was all the apostles had. There were no Epistles to study, no Greek to parse out, etc.
Well, you did call it a "plan", and I realize that sometimes I take things too literally...but:
For the record, I grew up listening to John R. Rice and preachers very much like him, and watching them reduce God's Gospel into composite "parts" and stating that, "God will do His part, you can be sure of that, and we have to do our part"...or something like that.
To me, there is no "plan of salvation" that can be "followed" and there never was, there is only His purpose :
" having made known unto us the mystery of his will,
according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:" ( Ephesians 1:9 )
The Gospel is a message to be preached and believed, not a series of verses to follow and believe, step by step, like the "Romans Road" to salvation.
Regards,
Dave.
EDIT:
Someone snuck in again and typed the same thing I was in the middle of typing...
That's OK, Mr. Cassidy, it's a forum, after all.