Comments on: A Christ-Centered Gospel

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:29:38 +0000

That little word “for” that comes before the word “us” is so crucial to understanding the real aim of the gospel. Thanks for a very insightful quote.

By: Jared

Jared — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:25:56 +0000

Trevin, I can’t wait to read it, man.

By: Dr. Paul W. Foltz

Dr. Paul W. Foltz — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:43:44 +0000

Bill, When a sinner gets saved, it is to the glory of God’s Grace; when he goes to Hell, it is to the glory of God’s Justice

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:14:34 +0000

This quote reminds me how subtley even the best theology can drift into an unintended, even unrecognized anthropocentric mind set. Fundamentaly before anything else is the glory of God. Everything else, including the salvation of the elect, is secondary.

By: Dr. Paul W. Foltz

Dr. Paul W. Foltz — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:04:11 +0000

The Bible has one central message, The Redemption of fallen man BY BLOOD and BY POWER.
Every thing else takes a back seat to it.

It is God, reaching down to save a sinner, who is so adverse to God, that he cannot turn to Him, so helpless that he cannot lift the axe of divine Justice, so dead in trespasses ans sins, that God must open their spiritual graves, and bring them to Spiritual life.

By: Paul Maurice Martin

Paul Maurice Martin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:21:37 +0000

The New Testament is authored by a number of persons and contains quite a variety of kinds of material. What its central message is or is not depends a lot on the ears of the hearer, so to speak.

Central to those aspects of the text that resonate most powerfully for me are what Jesus cites as the two greatest commandments: love others and love God.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:34:22 +0000

You hit the nail on the head about the gospel being about Christ and what He has done. The law is the message about us, it tells us our condition and brings us to our knees to recieve the gospel seed. Preaching needs to contain both and I think a lot of confusion has happened in preaching and the presentation of the gospel because gospel has come to mean everything about the Bible. A clear understanding of law and gospel makes a person a better communicator of the gospel because you keep it purely about Christ and what He has done.

Just my 2 cents from a Conservative Lutheran perspective.

Thanks, powerfully written.

By: Steve Weaver

Steve Weaver — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:45:25 +0000

Amen, Trevin!

By: Dr. Paul W. Foltz

Dr. Paul W. Foltz — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:27:19 +0000

Christ died to vindivate God the Father’s Righteousness in choosing us unto Salvation.

When Adam sinned God’s law was inpugned.

In dying for God, He died for us.