
The Gospel is Bigger Than You Think
Why a Comprehensive Gospel Creates Lasting Kingdom Impact
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Jason E Young
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Anthony Delgado
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Baptisms are down, church doors are closing, and once-faithful Christians are leaving their faith. This issue has puzzled many for years. Some suggest focusing on discipleship and Christian education, while others create programs to help the Gospel “stick.” However, the problem lies in the Gospel proclamation itself. The solution isn’t a new Gospel but a bigger, historical, and more comprehensive one. The Gospel is Bigger than You Think offers a thorough approach to the biblical Gospel, broadening the listener's perspective and creating lasting Kingdom impact.
Part I: The Gospel Proper
This part clarifies the biblical meaning of the Gospel and presents the Kingdom Gospel as the core narrative. Jesus' message was that the Kingdom of God is at hand, from which all of Christ’s works flow, culminating in the eternal Kingdom of God.
Part II: The Gospel’s Effects
Five Gospel spokes extend from the Kingdom Gospel image. Gospel Victory illustrates Christ’s triumph over sin, death, and rebellious beings, culminating in His cosmic reign. Gospel Family examines adoption and estrangement from Adam’s fall, showing how followers are adopted as sons of God and regenerated by the Holy Spirit. Gospel Restitution analyzes the first goat of the Day of Atonement, emphasizing the need for a perfect blood sacrifice, paralleling the Lord’s Supper. Gospel Repentance focuses on the second goat, symbolizing repentance by sending sin to its source. Gospel Transformation considers the image of God given to Adam and Eve and its relation to being conformed to Christ’s image, encompassing themes of glorification and deification.
Part III: Conclusion
Gospel Simplicity addresses childlike faith. While a child may not grasp the Gospel’s depth, faith can be received in a childlike manner. This book offers a comprehensive view of the Gospel and a framework for fruitful conversations.
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But the expansiveness of this view of the gospel is not limited to just ancient text in ancient context. It is also highly relevant to the Christian culture of today. In highlighting the focus on conversion over transformation, Delgado notes that it is no accident the modern American church has encountered numerous scandals of moral and spiritual failure. While he does not cite names, I would extend his supposition to such figures as Ted Haggard, Bill Hybels, Mark Driscoll, Ravi Zacharias, and sadly far too many others to comprehensively name – in addition to institutional organizations such as Calvary Chapel, Covenant Life Church, Hillsong, and Word of Faith. All of these share a common theological and cultural DNA: the gospel of Middle America, with all its Protestant evangelical trappings. By focusing on “number of souls won” and not “number of souls transformed”, I would personally claim that this quasi-gospel message has done incalculable harm to the real depth and breadth and beauty – as well as the actual truth – of the true Gospel we find in the pages of Scripture. But as always on this podcast, my goal is not to bash and tear down, but to lament, repent, and reconstruct. And in this regard, Delgado’s book is incredibly valuable in many respects: both by naming the virus, describing its symptoms, and by offering a healing balm that will be much more likely to actually transform its hearers. As he puts it: a gospel that is “bigger than you think.”
Overall, would I recommend this book? Without a doubt, my answer is “yes”. I found it to be a necessary and invaluable retrieval of the ancient worldview and contextual understanding of the Scriptural story, and as someone whose work revolves around the harm done by the institutional Church and church people, I resonated thoroughly with his assessment of the problem and the solution to the dilemma facing the people of God. We in the evangelical Protestant world, without a doubt need to do better at transforming our lives to the Kingdom Gospel. A large portion of the blame for this lies in church structures and institutions that emphasize the single commitment or “moment of decision” as a marker of spiritual health and blessing. St James and the prophet Micah, however, tell a different story: the religion that God accepts as pure and faultless is to visit the vulnerable in their time of need, to aid the weak in their distress, to make justice and righteousness roll down like a rushing waterfall. We have been so concerned with what we consider to be correct theology, and pointing out the sins of the world, that we have neglected to be transformed by that Gospel and be a light to that world. I do have some significant reservations about his chapter on Gospel Restitution which I will address in a separate format and place. But I don’t want that to detract from what is overall a highly relevant, well-written, and desperately needed breath of fresh air in the arena of practical theology. If you are considering buying a book for yourself or your loved one this holiday season, or just to fill out your bookshelf, you will not go wrong with The Gospel is Bigger Than You Think.
Kingdom Gospel for the win
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