The Gospel as Center: Renewing Our Faith and Reforming Our Ministry Practices

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2012

Overview

It’s time to reclaim the core of our beliefs … Important aspects of Christianity are in danger of being muddied or lost as relativism takes root in our churches today. What was historically agreed upon is now readily questioned and the very essentials of the Christian faith are in jeopardy. It’s time to reclaim the core of our beliefs. To that end, D. A. Carson, Tim Keller, Kevin DeYoung, and other influential leaders have created this volume to defend the traditional gospel and to strengthen the church. The Gospel as Center will help you join in the movement—the movement dedicated to a Scripture-based reformation of ministry practices and the centrality of the gospel—and stand united under the conviction that what holds us together is worth fighting for.

Contents

Top Highlights

“1) a display of his sovereign right to rule over the universe” (Page 69)

“What does it mean to be ‘prophetic’ from the center? It means to center our churches on the gospel, thereby producing a series of balances that the other approaches do not have.” (Page 18)

“The kingdom of God is fundamentally God’s sovereign rule expressed and realized through the different stages of redemptive history.” (Page 194)

“Every [scriptural] text is predictive of the work of Christ, preparatory for the work of Christ, reflective of the work of Christ, and/or resultant of the work of Christ.’” (Page 49)

“John Murray says that union with Christ is the ‘central truth of the whole doctrine of salvation.’¹² So crucial” (Page 178)

Product Details

• Title: The Gospel as Center: Renewing Our Faith and Reforming Our Ministry Practices
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2012
• Logos Release Date: 2016
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Gospel Coalition
• ISBNs: 9781433515613, 9781433515620, 9781433515637, 9781433518676, 143351561X, 1433515628, 1433515636, 1433518678
• Resource ID: LLS:GSPLSMNSTPRCTCS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:25:41Z

About The Gospel Coalition

Brian J. Tabb (PhD, London Theological Seminary) is academic dean at Bethlehem College & Seminary and an elder of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He also serves as managing editor for Themelios, published by the Gospel Coalition, and is the author of Suffering in Ancient Worldview.

D.A. Carson is a research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He has been at Trinity since 1978. Carson came to Trinity from the faculty of Northwest Baptist Theological Seminary in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he also served for two years as academic dean. He has served as an assistant pastor and pastor and has done itinerant ministry in Canada and the United Kingdom. Carson received a bachelor of science in chemistry from McGill University, the master of divinity from Central Baptist Seminary in Toronto, and the doctor of philosophy in New Testament from the University of Cambridge. Carson is an active guest lecturer in academic and church settings around the world. He holds membership on the Council for the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. Carson has also written many books that have garnered international acclaim, including his award-winning title The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism.

Daniel Strange is academic vice president and lecturer in culture, religion, and public theology at Oak Hill College, London. He is the author or coauthor of several other books, including The Possibility of Salvation Among the Unevangelised: An Analysis of Inclusivism in Recent Evangelical Theology.