Theology

Assumed Evangelicalism

From Beginning with Moses: You may have heard the story of the Mennonite Brethren movement. One particular analysis goes like this: the first generation believed and proclaimed the gospel and thought that there

The Gospel is about what God has done

The Gospel is about what God has accomplished through the person and work of Jesus Christ. This is big news. It involves rescue from judgment for sin and a restored relationship with God,

Before “everything must change”

Colin Hansen on an issue that’s constantly coming up here: the relationship of the gospel to social issues. If Christians today want to turn the world upside down, then we must preach

Emphasizing both sides of the gospel

My experience is that these individual and corporate aspects of the gospel do not live in easy harmony with one another in our preaching and church bodies. In fact, many communicators today deliberately

Applying the gospel

Kathy Keller on how the gospel becomes operational in our lives: I once likened…the preaching of the Gospel or the understanding of grace (choose the jargon you like best), to the coin