Joshua Ryan Butler has written a powerful and spiritually insightful book on what the gospel really means among its many distortions today. Here are several of his key ideas in his book:
1. Distortion: Jesus stays at a distance to tell us how to get clean.
Gospel: Jesus gets dirty, in order to make us clean.
2. Distortion: God can't stand to be in the presence of sinners.
Gospel" Sin can't stand to be in the presence of God.
3. Distortion: Lost means you need to go find God.
Gospel: Lost means God's coming to find you.
4. Distortion: Jesus emphasizes how to be good.
Gospel: Jesus emphasizes the goodness of God.
5. Distortion: Jesus bearing our punishment is an act of divine child abuse.
Gospel: Jesus bearing our punishment is an act of divine love.
6. Distortion: Sacrifice is how you clean yourself up so God can stand to be with you.
Gospel: Sacrifice is how God cleans you up so you can stand to be with God.
7. Distortion: Wrath contradicts God's love and is inappropriate for his character.
Gospel: Wrath arises from God's love and deals honestly with our world.
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