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John Frye sent me this review and without looking at it I decided to post it\u2026 and then I read it\u2026<\/p>\n

One.Pastor on One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow<\/a> <\/em><\/strong> Dr. John W Frye, Fellowship Evangelical Covenant Church<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/a>Pastors live in strong gospel crosswinds. One wind is created by those who are stridently trying to keep alive the reduced gospel spawned by market-driven evangelicalism. The growing crosswind is offered by those who yearn for and discern the robust gospel of Jesus Christ anchored in Jesus\u2019 vision of the kingdom of God.<\/p>\n

One gospel says \u201caccept Christ\u201d and the other one says \u201cfollow Jesus.\u201d One aims at getting people to heaven when they die. The other aims at getting heaven actively involved in history now. \u201cYour kingdom come. Your will be done on earth<\/em>.\u201d One gospel wants to create a new people of God. The robust gospel sees the people of God partnering with God in proclaiming and living Jesus\u2019 resurrection newness as it is breaking out in the whole universe.<\/p>\n

As a pastor, I am thankful to have a scholar-friend-author like Dr. Scot McKnight. In his\u00a0 newest book One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow<\/em> (Zondervan), Scot expresses his gratitude for the reduced-gospel tradition from which he came, but he dares to push against the confining smallness of America\u2019s popular gospel. Here\u2019s our problem today. Not only do we not like ultimatums, but we have too many Christians who have accepted Jesus into their hearts and who have been baptized and who have confessed their sins and who have joined the Church and who are in Bible studies and who are absolutely 100 percent convinced they are going to heaven, but are <\/em>not followers of Jesus\u2026The mark of a follower of Jesus is following <\/em>(115-116). <\/em><\/p>\n

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The reduced gospel has produced a wobbly community of Christians. What does wobbly mean? Scot lists several symptoms and here is one: American Christians can worry themselves into a lather about the gay marriage debate and do nothing for the 26,500 children who die daily from preventable diseases<\/em> (58-59). The reduced gospel cannot stand against the person and teachings of Jesus about whom \u201cnothing was wobbly.\u201d Many people who attend our churches were assured that heaven was theirs based on \u201caccepting Jesus into their hearts.\u201d With the big issue of eternity settled, why not hunker down into the wrecked consumerist, material culture, be nice, make a living, avoid sin, create Christian bubbles to live in, learn it, buy in and wait until Jesus comes back (or we die)?<\/p>\n

Pastors deal with the Bible a lot. Christ-centered pastors are in the Gospels a lot. Scot McKnight admits that his calling as a university professor has allowed him to saturate his heart, soul, and mind in the Gospels and rest of the New Testament. He is stunned that the reduced gospel promoted as the \u201creal thing\u201d is not ever found on the lips of Jesus.<\/p>\n

Scot and other scholars and pastors discern a robust, kingdom-of-God-gospel thundering through the New Testament. We may be able to accept the tidy steps of the reduced gospel. The robust gospel can\u2019t be accepted. It is too immense, too intense, too explosive, too adventurous. The robust gospel is a hurricane into which we step and find the loving, large, active heart and hands of God at work in the world now. Could anemic churches be the product of the reduced gospel? Jesus\u2019 robust gospel created a courageous, robust church. I am grateful for One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow. <\/em>The church will be better for it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"