Takeaway: The Gospel is about proclaiming Christ as Lord over all, not primarily about personal salvation.
Some books just give words to those ideas that have been floating around in your brain and suddenly you have a way to express what you were not previously able to express. The King Jesus Gospel is one of those books.
Over the past months, I have been struggling through understanding scripture and the church and the gospel and how it all relates. Of course, not all of my questions are answered and of course, I am not sure about all of McKnight’s answers, but his basic thesis, that we need to re-orient the way we talk about the gospel I am convinced is one of the most important messages I have heard.
Early in the book McKnight summarized his thesis (which he does a number of times throughout the book).
“Perhaps the most important thing I can say about what this book will argue boils down to these points: