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The Gospel: How the Church Portrays the Beauty of Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this timely book, Pastor Ray Ortlund makes the case that gospel doctrine creates a gospel culture. In too many of our churches, it is the beauty of a gospel culture that is the missing piece of the puzzle. But when the gospel is allowed to exert its full power, a church becomes radiant with the glory of Christ.

ourselves. So let’s think through this wonderful verse, phrase by phrase. The gospel is good news, and these momentous words have to be the best news: “For God so loved the world …” (John 3:16a). Yet for this verse to make the impact on us it deserves, we must understand two things: who this God is and how he loves this world. First, who is this God? The word God is so familiar to us that we might gloss over it. But we need to think about it. Not one of us has ever had
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