A Gospel Church is definitely all that Shannon New Spangler talked about in the previous post. She did an excellent job articulating the central importance of the Gospel message. This is not an easy task, writing a blog post about these themes, especially as the primary poster. Whole books could be written around any one of these themes, and we are trying to tackle them in a thousand words, give or take a couple hundred. So we have to make choices about how much gets said on any given theme. The advantage of the responder is that they get to pick up a thread that was not allowed to make it into the primary post. Thank goodness; otherwise I’d have nothing else to say.
So, that being said, I’d like to take what Shannon said about A Gospel Church and the centrality of the gospel, and stretch it. I absolutely agree that a gospel church has, at her core, the central message of Jesus Christ and his salvific work. However, I would like to push us a little further in understanding how a gospel church proclaims the gospel.