Did Jesus and Paul preach the same gospel?
In this classic panel discussion recorded at TGC13, Don Carson, Kevin DeYoung, Tim Keller, and John Piper discuss whether Jesus and Paul agreed on the gospel. They respond to the trend among mainline scholars to pit Jesus’s preaching on the kingdom against the gospel of salvation by grace through faith.
Carson counsels that if others are abusing the doctrine of the kingdom in a reductionistic way, the response of evangelicals should be to preach the biblical view of the kingdom better and more often, for the glory of God.
In This Episode
00:06 – Discussion on the importance of the question: Did Jesus preach the gospel?
02:48 – Evangelical vs. mainline Christianity: kingdom vs. gospel
05:03 – Integrating gospels and epistles: mutual informing
12:24 – Vocabulary differences: kingdom vs. gospel
36:37 – Understanding the kingdom: past, present, and future
39:26 – Kingdom ethics and values
50:20 – The kingdom of God: sovereignty and contestation
54:58 – The kingdom and public life
59:27 – Conclusion: “preaching up” the kingdom
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