Benjamin Dean, Author at Great Truths

Author: Benjamin Dean

2. The Gospel Is Not About You

That sounds like a rebuke. It’s actually a relief — and it’s where most misunderstandings of the Christian message get sorted out.

1. God Is Where the Good News Starts

The good news begins with God.

10. Lines Worth Drawing

Some things can be left open. Others can’t.

9. When the Curtain Comes Up

On the Last Day we will see the full unveiling of the new creation.

8. All We Can Bring Is Our Need of It

‘Atonement’ is a big and multifaceted concept. In Christian theology it means ‘the reconciliation of God and humankind through Jesus Christ.’

7. What We’re Supposed to Do (About the Best and Most Important News Anyone Every Hears)

The gospel tells us, fifthly, about how to respond: by whole-hearted, life-long belief, faith, repentance, obedience, discipleship and service to Jesus Christ.

6. Who He Is, What He Did, and What He Does

The gospel tells us, thirdly, about Jesus Christ.

5. The God Who Talks, and the Trouble We’re In

The gospel tells us, firstly, about God: that he is our Creator, through whose goodness and greatness we exist, in whose hands and by whose constant care every human person lives and breathes each moment.

4. Five Words That Hold the Whole Thing

So the gospel can be cast in careful formal language and in everyday informal language. It addresses all of us, and all of us can grasp hold of it at whatever level we choose.

3. More Than a Soundbite

The biblical gospel consists of several topics, heralded by multiple persons, written down by multiple authors in multiple types of literature, addressing a number of different subjects.

2. Not a Theory — a Reign

Most religious teaching arrives as ideas you’re asked to hold. The Christian gospel claims to be something else: a report of things that have happened.

1. Large Stories (Are Always About One Thing)

There’s a clip from 1968 of J. R. R. Tolkien talking about how The Lord of the Rings came together. He’s dismissing the suggestion that it’s an allegory of the nuclear bomb.

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