Paul the Apostle
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.” – Romans 1:16-17
Martin Luther
“At its briefest, the gospel is a discourse about Christ, that he is the Son of God and became man for us, that he died and was raised, and that he has been established as Lord over all things.”
- Martin Luther’s Basic Theological Writings, pg. 94
Alistair Begg
“Here’s the gospel in a phrase. Because Christ died for us, those who trust in him may know that their guilt has been pardoned once and for all. What will we have to say before the bar of God’s judgment? Only one thing. Christ died in my place. That’s the gospel.”
- from Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross: Experiencing the Passion and Power of Easter
Scot McKnight
“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.”
- Scot McKnight, Embracing Grace
Andy Crouch
“The gospel is the proclamation of Jesus, in [two] senses. It is the proclamation announced by Jesus – the arrival of God’s realm of possibility (his “kingdom”) in the midst of human structures of possibility. But it is also the proclamation about Jesus – the good news that in dying and rising, Jesus has made the kingdom he proclaimed available to us.”
- Andy Crouch, Culture Making, page 146
- The Foundation of this Promise is God’s
John 3:16, Romans 5:8 - The Scope of the Promise is
Romans 6:23 - The Invitation of the Promise is