Part of a week-long discussion of The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited by Scot McKnight I remember distinctly when Doug Pagitt first said it to me: “The gospel can’t be Jesus’ death and resurrection,” Doug said, “Because then Jesus could not have preached the gospel.”  I’d actually never thought about it like that before, but it made perfect sense.  (Doug wrote about that in A Christianity Worth Believing.) I also remember, as I became more familiar with evangelicalism... Read more

Part of a week-long discussion of The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited by Scot McKnight The first thing that I recognized when diving into my friend, Scot’s, book, is that this is a book written by and evangelical, for evangelicals. I’ve got a tortured relationship with evangelicalism.  It’s a love-hate thing.  I love the zeal and fervency with which evangelicals practice their Christianity.  I hate that the flip side of their zeal leads them to exclude persons, like... Read more