must engage topics like, Is the Word of God other than the gospel? Is the gospel other than God’s action? If the grammar, movement, and plot of the gospel are not trouble to grace, fallen to redeemed, enslavement to exodus, cross to resurrection, what is it? It is often too easy for teachers and preachers to sidestep these questions. Anglican cleric John Stott raises a point that might contradict our claims. Presumably in response to Karl Barth and others who emphasized the Word as event, and to