As Christians, we understand that the solution to this world’s problems is found in the Good News of Jesus Christ. He came to be the true Savior. He is the Way out of idolatry. He is the Truth that speaks to our idolatry, and he is the wellspring of Life that nourishes and satisfies our lonely and forgetful hearts.
Gospel
Charles Colson
The gospel of Jesus Christ must be the bad news of the conviction of sin before it can be the Good News of redemption. The truth is revealed in God’s Holy Word; life can be lived only in absolute and disciplined submission to its authority.
Os Guinness
As the early church boasted rightly, the message of Jesus is both simple enough for a child to paddle in and deep enough for an elephant to swim in.
Alexander MacLaren
The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.
Arthur John (A. J.) Gossip
A basic trouble is that most Churches limit themselves unnecessarily by addressing their message almost exclusively to those who are open to religious impression through the intellect, whereas…there are at least four other gateways – the emotions, the imagination, the aesthetic feeling, and the will – through which they can be reached.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
For the Christian church…. to ignore, euphemize, or otherwise mute the lethal reality of sin is to cut the nerve of the gospel. For the sober truth is that without full disclosure on sin, the gospel of grace becomes impertinent, unnecessary, and finally uninteresting.
Augustine
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
Henry Alford
Approach the Holy Gospels from the side of trust and love, and not from that of distrust and unchristian doubt…. Depend upon it, FAITH is the great primary requisite for the right use of the Gospels.
Augustine
If you believe in the Gospel what you like, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
Ernst Kasemann
When the Gospel began its course in this world, it was not at all to be expected that it would found a religion among other religions. On the contrary its first hearers were shaken by it in their pious convictions, customs, and practices. They were thrown into conflict with their elders, teachers, and synagogues. Therefore they could, if they became disciples of Jesus, be killed or be expelled from the community. Whoever does not grant that such a battle is described in the New Testament and whoever does not personally become involved in this battle has not grasped the real origins of Christianity.