The Contemporary Christian Series

What is the authentic gospel? How do we answer the sceptics?

Christianity is not a religion, but God''s good news for the world. This implies that it has both a divine origin and a human relevance: it comes from God and it speaks to our condition.

So, before we ask, ''What is the gospel?'', we need to ask, ''What is a human being?''

Chapter 1: The human paradox looks at what the Bible teaches and what our experience endorses: the glory and shame of our humanness, both our dignity as creatures made in God''s image and our depravity as sinners under his judgement.
Chapter 2: Human freedom: what is traditionally called ''salvation'', seen in terms of ''authentic freedom''.
Chapters 3 and 4: The central themes of the death and resurrection of Jesus, securing our freedom. This section also looks at a number of objections and denials.
Chapter 5: The far-reaching implications, both for faith and for life.

Radical indeed is the discipleship which takes all of this and Christ''s lordship seriously. It''s nothing short of a life-changing message.