You Need a Better Gospel

"A needed corrective to the simplistic gospel on offer in too many quarters of the church"New Testament scholar Klyne Snodgrass shows that the church will never be what it is supposed to be without a recovery of the gospel."Here is an impassioned and accessible plea for union with Christ as the center of Christian faith and life. Drawing on a wide swath of Scripture and Christian tradition, You Need a Better Gospel will be a boon to clergy and lay people who yearn for a deeper, livelier, and more transformative faith in the reality of the good news."--Susan Eastman, Duke Divinity School"To have eternal life is to participate in the family of God--in the Son, through the Spirit--with other adoptees. Snodgrass rightly asks evangelicals--'gospel people'--to recover the New Testament understanding of faith, which is considerably more rich, dramatic, and self-involving than merely signing on the doctrinal dotted line."--Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School"The robust gospel of transformative participation recovered and expounded in these pages is a needed corrective to the simplistic gospel on offer in too many quarters of the church. A must-read for pastors and lay people as well as professors and scholars."--Michael J. Gorman, St. Mary's Seminary & University; author of Participating in Christ"With pastoral concern, academic rigor, and godly wisdom, Snodgrass provides a helpful resource for a wide range of readers. The gospel--good news--continually gets debated and at times truncated, but Snodgrass shows that a robust gospel is not about a ticket to heaven but about humans fulfilling their ultimate purpose through participation in Christ."--Dennis R. Edwards, North Park Theological Seminary