Baker Books has sent me a number of books to review from author and theologian, D.A. Carson. I'm working my through "Basics for Believers," a study of Paul's letter to the Philippians. I was especially struck by this paragraph included in the chapter, "Put the Gospel first."
Put the Gospel first. Brothers and sisters in Christ, such a valuation of the Gospel ought not to be the exception for us, but the rule. We are talking about the good news that reconciles lost men and women to the eternal God. We are confessing the Gospel: that God Himself has provided a Redeemer who died, the just for the unjust, to bring us to Himself. Without this Gospel we are cut off, without hope in this world or the next, and utterly undone. Compared with this good news, what could possibly compete. Put the Gospel first.
