Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Could the gospel be lost in evangelical churches? In this book, J.D. Greear shows how moralism and legalism have often eclipsed the gospel, even in conservative churches. Gospel cuts through the superficiality of religion and reacquaints you with the revolutionary truth of God's gracious acceptance of us in Christ. The gospel is the power of God, and the only true source of joy, freedom, radical generosity, and audacious faith. The gospel produces in us what religion never could: a heart that desires God.
The book’s core is a “gospel prayer” by which you can saturate yourself in the gospel daily. Dwelling on the gospel will release in you new depths of passion for God and take you to new heights of obedience to Him. Gospel gives you an applicable, exciting vision of how God will use you to bring His healing to the world.
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Top Highlights
“Abiding in Jesus means understanding that His acceptance of us is the same regardless of the amount of spiritual fruit we have produced. Ironically, it is only when we understand that His love is not conditioned on our spiritual fruitfulness that we gain the power to become truly fruitful. Only those who abide in Him produce much fruit. In other words, those people who get better are those who understand that God’s approval of them is not dependent on their getting better.” (source)
“Love for God is commanded in Scripture, but the command can only truly be fulfilled as our eyes are opened to see God’s beauty revealed in the gospel. The Spirit of God uses the beauty of the gospel to awaken in our hearts a desire for God. ‘We love Him,’ the apostle John would say, ‘because He first loved us’ (1 John 4:19 NKJV). Love for God grows out of an experience of the love of God.” (source)
“The gospel has done its work in us when we crave God more than we crave everything else in life—more than money, romance, family, health, fame—and when seeing His kingdom advance in the lives of others gives us more joy than anything we could own.” (source)
“We are adulterers to God when we demand that He give us certain things so that we can find a happiness, contentment, and security in these things that really we should be finding in Him.” (source)
“The gospel, and the gospel alone, has the power to produce love for God in the heart.” (source)
- Title: Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary
- Authors: J. D. Greear, Timothy Keller
- Publisher: B&H
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Pages: 288
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Bible N.T. › Gospels; God; Doctrinal Theology
- ISBNs: 9781433673948, 9781535934657, 1433673940, 1535934654, 9781433673122, 1433673126
- Resource ID: LLS:9781433673948
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-07-08T22:54:30Z