Book Review: Getting the Gospel Right.

The book before us, happens to be one of the more definitional works on why the purity of the Gospel is so important. The Author, RC Sproul, gave us in this magnificent work both a critique of the movement's proposition; and a defence of the gospel as it has been put before us in the Holy Scriptures. And I think that these words sum up the whole point: "the loss of Christian unity at any point is tragic and destructive. When that loss threatens our unity in the gospel itself, it is catastrophic."  (p.9)  And then we are told:  "The truth of the gospel must be maintained for the Christ's sake and for our own. Indeed it is our eternal link to Christ and the means through which we become His in the first place." (p. 10)  It is with these sentiments that He then takes the time to show the errors which have gone unnoticed by many who were so desperate to follow this work of the Devil (ECT AND GOS) 

Now there is no doubting that there is a unity that the Gospel produces which is: firstly doctrinal; secondly, spiritual; and thirdly practical.   But what this movement did was to only concentrate on one element to the exclusion of the other two. And the result was such that it completely undercut the biblical vision of unity. Let us take note of the fact that true unity must always mirror the unity that exists between the members of the Trinity until our unity resembles that one there is no real unity. What is at the heart of our unity is true of the three members of the Godhead. Now, of course,  we might not even begin to understand that very truth; but it nonetheless is the the truth.  

Christians can only find unity when what they are holding to aligns with what the bible teaches them about the 'faith that was once for all delivered to the saints'. It is that faith which is based on clear scriptural truths that unites. And at the heart of this reality is the doctrine of Justification by imputed righteousness alone. 
 

I would recommend this book to all who want to get a grasp of this issue. 

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