Recovering the Real Lost Gospel: Reclaiming the Gospel as Good News
Overview
While some seek so-called lost gospels, Darrell L. Bock suggests the real lost gospel is the one already found in the Bible and reminds everyone of what it means: good news.
- Offers a biblical theology of the gospel by tracing key terms related to the gospel storyline
- Demonstrates that the real gospel is more than a transaction for sin, or a therapy for self, or a transportation to heaven - it's a story of transformation
- Shows how the full promise of the gospel is misunderstood, misapplied, and even missed because of ignorance concerning the full gospel story
- Introduction: The Gospel from the Hub to the Whole: More than Dying for Sin
- The Gospel Starts with a Promise: Relationship in the Spirit
- The Gospel Is a Meal and a Washing: The Lord's Table and Baptism
- A Unique Action Meeting a Comprehensive Need: The Cross
- The Gospel Is Inaugurated as a Gift of God's Grace
- The Gospel Is Affirmed in Divine Action and Scripture: God Showing Who Jesus Is
- Embracing the Gospel: Repentance and Faith
- A Different Kind of Power Through a Way of Life Pleasing to God: Reconciliation, Peace, and Power of God unto Salvation
- Conclusion: Getting the Gospel Clear: A Relationship Rooted in God's Love, Not Just a Transaction
Top Highlights
“A new heart. A new Spirit. A new start. If God’s people are going to obey God’s law consistently, it won’t be by trying harder. It will be by God’s Spirit dwelling within them.” (Page 11)
“This overview of the promise of the Old Testament shows that behind the gospel stands the promise of three covenants that actually form a singular promise of God to fashion a people who themselves are a reflection of God’s promise and blessing living in a world filled with need. Together the Abrahamic, Davidic, and New covenants form the gospel’s backbone. God would form a people through whom the world would be blessed. He would do it through a promised king, a Messiah. That king would bring two key things the world desperately needed: forgiveness and a restored relationship with the living God. The two were always connected to be good news from God.” (Pages 11–12)
“The danger in seeing or preaching the gospel only as a transaction is that once the ‘deal’ is done, the believer may have the sense that he or she has checked the box and is done with the gospel having procured the salvation and avoided hell.” (Page 4)
“The gospel starts with a promise: a relationship in the Spirit. It is pictured as a meal and a washing: the Lord’s Table and baptism. It is rooted in a unique action supplying a unique need: the cross. It is inaugurated as a gift that is the sign of the arrival of the new era: Pentecost. It is affirmed in divine action and Scripture: God working uniquely and inseparably through Jesus. It is embraced in a turn that ends in faith: invoking the name of Jesus. It involves a different kind of power and is designed to be a way of life: reconciliation and the power of God unto salvation.” (Page 5)
“Darrell Bock is one of the church’s finest New Testament scholars. He has the unique ability to write on both the technical and popular level and presents a biblical theology of the gospel that is clear, robust, and holistic. This is a valuable contribution to helping us rightly understand the greatness of the gospel.”
Daniel L. Akin, president, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
“You are holding in your hands a really rare book–one that goes all the way back to the New Testament in connecting the gospel and the cross with the life of discipleship and the mission of the church in a broken world that needs the message of grace. Darrell Bock is one of our best biblical theologians and is at his best in this new study.”
Timothy George, dean, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University
“Recovering the Real Lost Gospel is a welcomed corrective and timely guide for so many individuals and churches who seemingly have lost their way amidst the confusing spirituality and mixed religious messages of our day.”
David S. Dockery, president, Union University
- Title: Recovering the Real Lost Gospel
- Author: Darrell L. Bock
- Publisher: B&H
- Print Publication Date: 2010
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Christian life; Christianity › Essence, genius, nature; Salvation › Christianity
- ISBNs: 9781087795317, 9781433673146, 9781594153433, 1433673142, 1594153434, 1087795311
- Resource ID: LLS:9781433673146
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:45:06Z
Dr. Darrell L. Bock, research professor of New Testament studies and professor of spiritual development and culture at Dallas Theological Seminary, serves as editor-at-large forChristianity Today, and is on the board of Chosen People Ministries and Wheaton College. From 2000 to 2001, Dr. Bock served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society.
He has earned international recognition as a Humboldt Scholar for his work in Luke-Acts, historical Jesus study, biblical theology, as well as with messianic Jewish ministries. He has published articles in the Los Angeles Times and The Dallas Morning News and is a well-known author of over 30 books. His publications include Studying the Historical Jesus: A Guide to Sources and Methods,Jesus According to Scripture, an NIV Application Commentary on Luke, Breaking the Da Vinci Code, and commentaries on Acts and Luke in the Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament (BECNT) series.