Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Gospel

Excerpt from "An Efficient Gospel?" by Tim Keel, Leadership Journal (Winter 2008)

"In the modern world, we tend to reduce the complexity and diversity of the Scriptures to simple systems, even when our systems flatten the diversity and integrity of the biblical witness. We reduce our sermons to consumer messages that reduce God to a resource that helps the individual secure a reduced version of the 'abundant life' Jesus promised. And the gospel itself gets reduced to a simplified framework of a few easily memorized steps."

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