This was an excellent book. We went through this book as a small group and it was so good. What is the Gospel? God, Man, Christ, Response. That's the Gospel. We start with God as a holy God and He created everything. This included man. God gave Adam and Eve (The first humans) a wonderful place to live without pain and free from struggle. God gave them one command and they broke it. Man became sinful before God. The punishment for sin is death. Now mankind is in trouble because one sin requires punishment/death. But God in His great mercy sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, to live a perfect life and die on a cross so that those who would repent, trust, and follow Him would have everlasting life. Simply believing that Jesus existed is not salvation. It is a total transformation from the old self to the new. That comes from truly repenting of your sins before a holy God, and pursuing Christ with all that you have. This book gave me greater confidence in being able to share what the Gospel is to those who are lost. I fully recommend. Truth is being assaulted from all sides in our day. From the capitulation of the Biologos cadre, to the crass man-centeredness of Osteen, to the “God is an American conservative Republican” cultural Christianity crowd, there are voices out there to confuse believers, distort the truth, and eviscerate biblical Christianity. It’s time someone wrote a book reminding us what the gospel is, and what it isn’t.Greg Gilbert’s brief (124 pages), accessible offering, published by Crossway under the 9Marks imprint, is just what the doctor ordered. Gilbert carefully points the church back to a biblical understanding of the gospel, and along the way he manages to distinguish between the results of the gospel and the gospel itself. It does not help people much if we talk in glowing terms of kingdom and cultural transformation if we haven’t made clear how one gets through the door. As he gently corrects, Gilbert’s tone is not polemical; he’s not going to alienate anyone, whether they are lost or merely confused about the gospel.The book contains but eight chapters, four of which cover these topics: God’s righteousness, man’s sinfulness, Christ the Savior, and the response of faith and repentance. Gilbert reminds us that one does not need to be a Princeton grad to understand that Jesus died for my sins.One of the great things about this book is that you can give it to an earnest seeker, and know that they will be exposed to a simple, solid, accurate, biblical, and compassionate explanation of gospel. I plan on keeping a box of these things in my study for just that purpose.
What do You think about Qué Es El Evangelio? (2000)?
Short, sweet, and to-the-point explanation of what the Gospel is in an easy to remember format.
—OhZyra
A fantastic little book, introducing the reader to what the Gospel is (and what it's not).
—karaschmidt11
