What Is the Gospel? (Foreword by D. A. Carson) (9Marks)

The reason for our confusion is that we usually read the Bible as a series of disconnected stories, each with a “moral” for how we should live our lives. It is not. Rather, it comprises a single story, telling us how the human race got into its present condition, and how God through Jesus Christ has come and will come to put things right.

The Christian gospel, it is often said, is designed to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

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.

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