What Is the Gospel?

What Is the Gospel? provides pastor and layman alike with a fresh and refreshing approach to the summary of the Christian faith. One receives the immediate impression from the beginning of this small volume that it is written by a pastor who, by God's Word and work, has been faithfully tending the Master's flock entrusted to him. What Is the Gospel? answers the question of its title in a manner easy to understand and which is consistent with the orthodox and Confessional Lutheran...
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What Is the Gospel? provides pastor and layman alike with a fresh and refreshing approach to the summary of the Christian faith. One receives the immediate impression from the beginning of this small volume that it is written by a pastor who, by God's Word and work, has been faithfully tending the Master's flock entrusted to him. What Is the Gospel? answers the question of its title in a manner easy to understand and which is consistent with the orthodox and Confessional Lutheran faith.The Rev. Dr. John Drickamer combines insights gained by pastoral practice and creative writing skills to address questions commonly asked by both Christians and non-Christians. Pastor Drickamer includes, for example, letters he wrote in response to an individual who questioned the 'Real Presence' of Christ's body and blood in the Sacrament. In another chapter entitled, "Because I live - An Easter Play," the author deals with the subject of the Christian hope of heaven using the form of drama. What kind of a sermon would the centurion at the foot of the cross have preached if he really had become a pastor in Asia Minor? By entertaining this question, the author conveys the price paid for sin and the forgiveness won for the sinner by Christ as true Man and true God on the cross.The author's creative style is not the only attraction of this tool. What Is the Gospel? also answers hard-hitting questions in a forthright and definitive manner. In a society that regards education to be the cure-all for such sins as drug abuse, promiscuousness, and others he writes:Knowledge alone cannot keep an unbeliever from sin if he thinks he can get away with it. Education alone cannot make people better. They need conversion.