There’s a gospel within the Gospels that most Christians overlook. That’s the premise of British scholar N.T. Wright’s new book, How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels. An Anglican, Wright preaches a Christ-centered faith that Anabaptists affirm but that Wright asserts is rare.
What is Scripture’s forgotten story? It’s the fact that Jesus’ whole life is the gospel. And it’s got to be the whole thing: birth, miracles and teachings, death, resurrection and ascension. You can’t skip from the stable to the cross. You can’t look first to Paul’s theology of the atonement. You’ve got to go straight to Jesus — and not just to his death, but his entire life.
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