The Explicit Gospel
Overview
You know you know it…
But then again, maybe you don’t.Even if you go to church, it doesn’t mean that you are being exposed (or exposing others) to the gospel explicitly. Sure, most people talk about Jesus, and about being good and avoiding bad, but the gospel message simply isn’t there—at least not in its specificity and its fullness.
Inspired by the needs of both the over-churched and the unchurched, and bolstered by the common neglect of the explicit gospel within Christianity, popular pastor Matt Chandler writes this best-selling treatise to remind us what is of first and utmost importance—the gospel.
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Top Highlights
“The idolatry that exists in man’s heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him. Religion is usually the tool the self-righteous man uses to exalt himself.” (Page 14)
“The bottom line is that to seek our glory is to seek our damnation.” (Page 47)
“We are saved, sanctified, and sustained by what Jesus did for us on the cross and through the power of his resurrection. If you add to or subtract from the cross, even if it is to factor in biblically mandated religious practices like prayer and evangelism, you rob God of his glory and Christ of his sufficiency.” (Page 15)
“My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.” (Page 15)
“Here’s my point: what if the Bible isn’t about us at all? What if we aren’t the story of God’s revelation?” (Page 33)
- Title: The Explicit Gospel
- Authors: Matt Chandler, Jared C. Wilson
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2012
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Protestant Churches › Doctrines; Redemption › Biblical teaching; Redemption › Christianity; Salvation › Biblical teaching; Salvation › Christianity
- Resource ID: LLS:347FF20C9D5AC164457A3FD85EA89EE9
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-01-14T21:19:39Z