On Sunday night, David Strivings shared a bit from his 6 months in Indonesia. He hit on a common error we make in understanding the gospel. There are two ways to shrink down the gospel narrowing our view:
1. The Gospel of Personal Salvation. The gospel is only about going to heaven someday.
2. The Social Gospel. The gospel is only about addressing deforestation, poverty, etc.
The problem isn’t that either of these are wrong. Their problem is that they are both reductions. What we need is the biblical Gospel of the Kingdom. The good news of the historical event that Jesus of Nazareth came, lived, died, resurrected, and is now the King over all has far reaching implications. It is not less than either of these two. It is so much more!
