According to Scot McKnight, author of The Jesus Creed (15,000 sold since October ‘04) Christians today have four gospels: a Creation Day Only Gospel, a Good Friday Only Gospel, an Easter Day Only Gospel, and a Pentecost Day Only Gospel. But the gospel itself concerns an entire weekend, from Good Friday through Easter morning, and only when we grasp the significance of the entire gospel message do we see what it is all about.
This fascinating book explains that the Gospel is about the restoration of 'cracked Eikons' (fallen humans) so that humans can be in union with God and in communion with the saints.
In the candid and lucid style that has made McKnight’s earlier book so appealing to thousands of pastors, lay leaders, and everyday people who are searching for a more authentic faith, he encourages all Christians to recognize the simple, yet potentially transforming truth of the gospel message: God seeks to restore us to wholeness not only to make us better individuals, but to form a community of Jesus, a society in which humans strive to be in union with God and in communion with others.