Genesis 12:3

It seems like an elementary question with a simple answer. Almost every Sunday school child at gospel-preaching churches knows that the gospel is the good news about Jesus dying on the cross to save sinners through faith so they can be forgiven and have eternal life.

While there’s a beautiful simplicity to the gospel that even a child can understand and savingly believe (Matt 18:3, 6; 19:14), there’s also a depth and multifaceted richness to the gospel that drops the jaws of the inhabitants of the spiritual realm (1 Cor 2:6–10; Eph 3:10–11; cf. 1 Pet 1:12), baffles theologians (1 Pet 1:10–12; cf. Dan 12:8–9; Zech 4:4–6), can’t be exhausted in all the world’s books (cf. John 21:25), and will be an endless source of delight for all eternity (cf. Rev 4:9–10; 5:13; 7:12).

In this post, I’d like to consider some common conceptions of the gospel and then invite you to broaden your horizons beyond these essential elementary truths into depths and glories of the gospel that you might not often enough consider.