Sublime

The verbiage of social gospel began to be used in the late nineteenth century to describe a philosophy and theology that emphasized benevolence to the whole person (i.e., his body and soul), as well as human society as a whole.

Les Stobbe, Max Lucado, Charlie Wetzel, Les Parrott, Bob Buford,

nearly all of my Christian students tell me that the gospel they heard as they grew up primarily had to do with their sin, Jesus’ death, and going to heaven.

B. B. Warfield’s

I suspect that no figure in Christian history has suffered a greater injustice as a result of the desperate inventiveness of the Christian moral imagination than the Apostle Paul, since it was the violent misprision of his theology of grace—starting with the great Augustine, it grieves me to say—that gave rise to almost all of these grim distortion

Scott D. Allen and Darrow L. Miller Published by the Disciple Nations Alliance

Here is the good news. There is another book, the Book of Life. In The Story of Reality, Greg Koukl says, “It also contains a record, the names of those who, though guilty, have received mercy, at their request: ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner.’ All those who have accepted their pardon in Christ will be absolved.” So, in the final judgment, there

The Christian gospel, for Augustine, wasn’t just the answer to an intellectual question (though it was that); it was more like a shelter in a storm, a port for a wayward soul, nourishment for a prodigal who was famished, whose own heart had become, he said, “a famished land.”