Book Review: "The King Jesus Gospel" by Scot McKnight

Many people ask the question, "Did Jesus and Paul preach the same gospel?".  On occasion some people say "no", but more often than not, a student of the bible would answer with a resounding "yes".  But, in his book "The King Jesus Gospel", Scot McKnight uses this question to show how far the church has fallen from proclaiming the Gospel that Jesus, Peter, Paul and the rest of the disciples preached.

McKnight steps through the Bible to show that the Gospel is the completion of Israel's story (and therefore the world's story) in the person and work of Jesus Christ.  He shows that this is the message preached by Jesus and the apostles.

This Gospel, McKnight claims, has been overlooked in favor of the "plan of salvation" that most evangelicals proclaim.  Outside of the story of the Gospel, the plan of salvation seems like a work we do in order to be saved.  McKnight also says that "personalizing" the Gospel, makes salvation more about the person than the God who does the saving.

It took me quite a while to get through this small book.  It has a lot of good information and is not very long, but I think it probably could have been 75-100 pages shorter (it is only 175 pages in length).  It serves as a great reminder about what the true Gospel is.  Jesus truly was the messiah that we all have been waiting for.