Something Better than the Gospel?

“There is something even better than the good news, and that something is God. The good news of the gospel is that God has opened up the dynamics of His triune life and given us a share in that fellowship. But all of that good news only makes sense against the background of something even better than the good news: the goodness that is the perfection of God Himself.”

- Fred Sanders, The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything

(which, BTW, is GREAT book!

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The Gospel of God & the God of the Gospel

"The Gospel is God-sized, because God puts himself into it.  The living God binds himself to us and becomes our salvation, the life of God in the soul of man. We are saved by the gospel of God to worship the God of the gospel."  - page 117

"The good news that Jesus brings is that God has chosen to accomplish our salvation by being himself for us, by opening up his own life and bringing us into fellowship."  - Page 120

From The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything by Fred Sanders

Too Small

"A gospel which is only about the moment of conversion but does not extend to every moment of life in Christ is too small.

A gospel that gets your sins forgiven but offers no power for transformation is too small.

A gospel that isolates one of the benefits of union with Christ and ignores all the others is too small.

A gospel that must be measured by your own moral conduct, social conscience, or religious experience is too small.

A gospel that rearranges the components of your life but does not put you personally in the presence of God is too small. "

— Fred Sanders   Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010), 106

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