{"id":16535,"date":"2020-04-22T09:44:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T14:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=16535"},"modified":"2020-04-22T20:51:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T01:51:29","slug":"a-response-to-scot-mcknight-and-matthew-bates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=16535","title":{"rendered":"A Response to Scot McKnight and Matthew Bates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note: Last week, Greg Gilbert gave a talk at T4G. You can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9marks.org\/article\/a-t4g-2020-sermon-what-is-and-isnt-the-gospel\/\">here<\/a>. In that talk, Greg took issue with some statements and emphases of both Scot McKnight and Matthew Bates. They have both responded (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/scot-mcknight\/2020\/april\/king-jesus-gospel-mere-kingship-no.html\">McKnight<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/scot-mcknight\/2020\/april\/good-news-are-t4g-tgc-leaders-starting-to-change-their-gosp.html\">Bates<\/a>). This article addresses their responses.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note #2: We have altered the title of this article from a previous version in order to better reflect its content.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>* * * * *<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the last day or two, both Scot McKnight and Matthew Bates have responded to my address at the &ldquo;Together for the Gospel&rdquo; conference, a talk entitled &ldquo;What Is, and Isn&rsquo;t, the Gospel?&rdquo; I appreciate that both those brothers would take the time to respond, and I&rsquo;m glad this conversation is happening. It really would be good if the result was not a deepening of the moats and a heightening of the walls, but rather some movement toward understanding, perhaps even agreement, and ultimately a clear and unified and beautiful presentation of the glorious good news of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I don&rsquo;t enjoy online arguments . . . I mean, <em>discussions<\/em>. I used to, before I became a husband, dad, and pastor. But once that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cKing Jesus came into the world to save sinners.\u201d Now that\u2019s good news. So why on earth would anyone want to reply to that, \u201cEh, half of it is, anyway\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[344,321,78,322],"class_list":["post-16535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-biblical-theology","tag-evangelism-gospel","tag-gospel","tag-preaching-theology","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16538,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16535\/revisions\/16538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}