The King Jesus Gospel Quotes

“What must be emphasized in all of this is the difference between trusting Christ, the real person Jesus, with all that that naturally involves, versus trusting some arrangement for sin-remission set up through him — trusting only his role as guilt remover.”
― Scot McKnight, The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited

“the movement that has long called itself “evangelical” is in fact better labeled “soterian.” That is, we have thought we were talking about “the gospel” when in fact we were concentrating on “salvation.”
― Scot McKnight, The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited

“Peter’s Jesus of Nazareth, the one who lived and died and who was raised and ascended and enthroned, is both Messiah of Israel and Lord of the whole world. Those are the terms of the early gospeling in the book of Acts, and if we want to be faithful to the Bible, those should be our terms as well. Those titles for Jesus tell the gospel Story of Jesus.”
― Scot McKnight, The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited

“PART OF THE GENIUS of genuine Christianity is that each generation has to think it through afresh.”
― Scot McKnight, The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited

“What must be emphasized in all of this is the difference between trusting Christ, the real person Jesus, with all that that naturally involves, versus trusting some arrangement for sin-remission set up through him — trusting only his role as guilt remover. These”
― Scot McKnight, The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited

“Gospels of Sin Management” presume a Christ with no serious work other than redeeming humankind … [and] they foster “vampire Christians,” who only want a little blood for their sins but nothing more to do with Jesus until heaven. Dallas”
― Scot McKnight, The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited

“One reason why so many Christians today don’t know the Old Testament is because their “gospel” doesn’t even need it!”
― Scot McKnight, The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited