The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited

However, this story is not the same as the gospel. The gospel fits into this story, but it is not the story. Further, the gospel only makes sense in that story. Now a very important claim: without that story there is no gospel. This leads to a second claim: if we ignore that story, the gospel gets distorted, and that is just what has happened in sa

A salvation culture does not require The Members or The Decided to become The Discipled for salvation. Why not? Because its gospel is a gospel shaped entirely with the “in and out” issue of salvation. Because it’s about making a decision. In this book we want to show that the gospel of Jesus and that of the apostles, both of which created a gospel

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What has happened is that we have created a “salvation culture” and mistakenly assumed it is a “gospel culture.”

Evangelicalism is known for at least two words: gospel and (personal) salvation.

nearly all of my Christian students tell me that the gospel they heard as they grew up primarily had to do with their sin, Jesus’ death, and going to heaven.

What is the gospel?

The gospel of King Jesus and of his kingdom-now is indeed “the power of God that brings salvation/deliverance.”

We can’t keep trying to improve the mechanics of the system because they’re not the problem. The problem is that the system is doing what it should do because it is energized by a badly shaped gospel.