what is the Gospel
- TIM KELLER: “The Gospel is ‘you’re saved by grace,‘ and Idolatry is ‘you’re saved by something else.‘”
_________________________________________________________________ - Greg Gilbert expresses his dismay–rightly, I’d have to say–at CT’s interview of Rob Bell especially regarding the gospel.
_____________________________________________________________ - Failure to distinguish between the gospel and all the effects of the gospel tends, on the long haul, to replace the good news as to what God has done with a moralism that is finally without the power and the glory of Christ crucified, resurrected, ascended, and reigning. (read the whole thing)
_____________________________________________________________ - 5 Distortions of the Gospel in Our Day
James MacDonald tells of five distortions of the gospel we tend to hear today. He closes with a warning: “Do you understand the implications of a distorted gospel? What horror to imagine many people thinking they are ready to meet God only to find out they never were because they believed a distorted gospel.”
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Do We Really Need to Wage War Against False Doctrine?
. . . and how evangelicalism’s refusal to fight for the faith destroyed the movement
