I haven’t put anything a little bit controversial on here in a little while…
On Leadership Journal’s Blog (Out of Ur), Skye provides a great summary of some of the things that Scot McKnight has been saying about the gospel that we preach.
Is the gospel that’s presented in the Scriptures - God has a wonderful plan for your life, you have sinned, Jesus deals with your sin problem, have faith in Jesus to get into Heaven?
Here’s a few of the problems that McKnight has with that definition of the gospel…
- No one in the New Testament ever preaches that gospel (that one alone should be problem enough to allow it to be questioned)
- This creates an individualistic Christian life and an individual gospel
- This creates an individualistic Christian life and an individual gospel
Go here to read the rest. It’s a great, easy to read and succinct discussion of what we’ve done to the gospel…
By the way, in his book, Embracing Grace, McKnight offers this great definition of the gospel…
The gospel is the work of God to restore humans to union with God and communion with others, in the context of a community, for the good of others and the world.
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