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What 'Big Question' What Is The Gospel?
• There is a “big question” this book is asking and it is “what is the gospel?”
• We might think the gospel is a simple thing but I is more complex than we generally think and we have to nail down what the gospel is before we can talk about social topics as Christians.
• McKnight offers three exhibits to why we need to seek out what the gospel is from scripture with fresh eyes.
• First: The word gospel has become about a personal relationship with Jesus but we have no clue why he is called the Messiah or why that matters.
• Second: The gospel has been reduced to “justification by faith” by Calvinist thinking.
• We have even gone as far as to say Jesus could not have preached the gospel because justification by faith was not preached till
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