When we fill our minds with the gospel, it must be in its fullness as Jesus presented and embodies it.* If we limit the gospel to what Jesus did during a few days at the end of his earthly existence, we miss most of the picture. We shouldn’t reduce the saving work of Christ to his death on the cross or we will miss the fullness of God as he is in himself and as he provides for us and all his creation. The gospel that Jesus himself proclaimed, manifested, and taught was about more than his death for the forgiveness of our sins, as important as that is. It was about the kingdom of God—God’s
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