QOTD: Examples of a "Too Small" Gospel

From the terrific book The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything:

A gospel which is only about the moment of conversion but does not extend to every moment of life in Christ is too small. A gospel that gets your sins forgiven but offers to power for transformation is too small. A gospel that isolates one of the benefits of union with Christ and ignores all the others is too small. A gospel that must be measured by your own moral conduct, social conscience, or religious experience is too small. A gospel that rearranges the components of your life but does not put you personally in the presence of God is too small.

Emphasis added for the contemporary American churchgoer.

Quote of the Day - The Trinity

Here is how that great Puritan thinker, Jonathan Edwards, described the Holy Trinity:

This I suppose to be the blessed Trinity that we read in the Scriptures. The Father is the deity subsisting in the prime, unoriginated and most absolute manner, or the deity in its direct existence. The Son is the deity generated by God's understanding, or having an idea of Himself and subsisting in that idea. The Holy Ghost is the deity subsisting in act, or the divine essence flowing out and breathed forth in God's infinite love to and delight in Himself. And I believe the whole Divine essence does truly and distinctly subsist both in the Divine idea and Divine love, and that each of them are properly distinct persons."

--Jonathan Edwards, An Essay on the Trinity

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