“Pilgrim” theology is the relentless pursuit of reality. This journey of understanding must begin with the central claim of all Scripture, which is the gospel—the good news of Jesus Christ. The gospel does not just tell us that God exists. The gospel tells us what God is like, how he has acted in history, and where we stand in relationship to him. As Michael Horton contends in the introduction to Pilgrim Theology, “I do not believe the gospel because I believe in God; rather,