Dude, Where's My Gospel

Here's a snippet from a MUST Read blog post by Jared C. Wilson on the reasons why the Gospel, the good news that Christ Died for Our Sins needs to be front and center every Sunday in Church.

Gospel deficiency is the major crisis of the evangelical church. The good news has been replaced by many things, most often a therapeutic, self-help approach to biblical application. The result is a Church that, ironically enough, preaches works, not grace, and a growing number of Christians who neither understand the gospel nor revel in its scandal.

There are lots of good reasons to reclaim the centrality of the good news of Jesus in our preaching and teaching and writing and blogging, and I’ve come up with four basic arguments for (what I’m calling) The Gospel Imperative, but perhaps defining our terms is in order. It’s no good going on about making the gospel the center of our worship and discipleship if we are not on the same page for what the gospel actually is.

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[blastum.myopenid.com]

"revel in its scandal." That's beautiful.

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[David L]

Don't we need to preach the complete Gospel, that Christ rose from the grave defeating death by death and upon those in the tombs bestowing life?