![]() ![]() My thesis is to survey the most relevant views, and compare them to the teachings and model that Jesus Himself called the gospel, and ultimately to demonstrate how that would play out in the life of the Twenty-first Century follower of Jesus Christ. There is much discussion and at times heated disagreement between the variegated streams of the Body of Christ at large on what exactly can be defined as the gospel, a conversation which is further complicated as the various modern views held by many are compared, and contrasted, with each other, and even more so when compared with the gospel message as preached by Jesus Himself in the four Gospel narratives, as well as how the early apostolic church and leaders understood and preached the gospel in the Book of Acts. ![]() Even when a consensus is reached concerning a working definition, there is often much disagreement about the particulars related to how it should be expressed by the Church, whether in a local, regional, national, or international setting, or how it is to be proclaimed and demonstrated to the world. ![]() There has been much discussion throughout Church history, especially in the last century, concerning what is, and isn’t, the biblical gospel. ![]()
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