For a long time I understood the "gospel" as being just elementary truths, the doctrinal minimum requirement for entering the faith. "Theology," I thought, was the advanced, meatier, deeper, biblical stuff. How wrong I was! All theology must be an exposition of the gospel, especially in the postmodern age.
The gospel of salvation doesn't really relate to theology like the first steps relate ot the rest of the stairway bu tmore like the hub relates through the spokes to the rest of the wheel. The gospel of a glorious, other-oriented triune God giving himself in love to his people in creation and redemption and recreation is the core of every doctrine--of the Bible, of God, of humanity, of salvation, of ecclesiology, of eschatology.
As Keller reminds us, when we are explaining and discussing Christianity, we must get "to the core of things", to the gospel every time. Jesus must be the hero. We never outgrow that reality. We never move on, but we move more deeply into that truth.
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