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“If you only read one book this year, make it this one. It’s that important.â€â€•Rick Warren, Pastor, Saddleback Church, Lake Forest, California“This book, like the gospel itself, is clarifying, convicting, comforting, and compelling all at the same time. I wholeheartedly invite you to read it, to be overwhelmed by the mercy and majesty of God in the gospel, and then to spend your life making this gospel explicit in every facet of your life and to every corner of the earth!â€â€•David Platt, Pastor-Teacher, McLean Bible Church; author, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream“That the gospel is not clearly taught in classic liberalism is disheartening but not surprising. That frequently the gospel is not taught in evangelical congregations is both disquieting and surprising. Evangelicals will not deny the gospel, but they may assume it while talking about everything else―and that is tragic. Matt Chandler issues a robust call to make the gospel an explicit and central part of our preaching, and takes pains to show what that looks like. Amen and Amen.â€â€•D. A. Carson, Research Professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; Cofounder, The Gospel Coalition“Matt Chandler presents the gospel in a way that is balanced, hope-filled, and very, very serious, all the while presented with Matt’s trademark humor. Even more faithful than funny, Matt insults all of us (including himself) in a strangely edifying way, and in a way that I pray will make you treasure Christ even more.â€â€•Mark Dever, Pastor, Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Washington, DC; President, 9Marks“The Explicit Gospel is a roadmap and wake-up call to our generation to grasp the full, expansive, and true gospel story. Matt is a leading voice, a great expositor of the Scriptures, passionate about Jesus, and serious about the gospel and making God known. When he speaks, I listen, and when he writes, I read. This book reflects the clear and core message of Matt’s life, leadership, and passion for a generation hungry for truth.â€â€•Brad Lomenick, Executive Director, Catalyst“Too often the gospel fails to take root when it is assumed. The explicit gospel transforms individuals, churches, and nations as the mission of God is carried forward. Matt Chandler has gifted the church with a powerful tool to combat the assumed gospel. The Explicit Gospel is a serious threat to the moralistic, therapeutic deism that cripples the lives of so many. I highly recommend this book to both believers and unbelievers alike.â€â€•Ed Stetzer, Billy Graham Distinguished Chair of Church, Mission, and Evangelism, Wheaton College“Matt Chandler’s excellent book will help Christians avoid common errors that occur when we make assumptions about the meaning of the word gospel.†(April 2012)―World Magazine"The Explicit Gospel brings extraordinary clarity and creativity to what all assume is understood―but quickly realize has been forgotten.†(May 2012)―RELEVANT Magazine
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About the Author
Matt Chandler (BA, Hardin-Simmons University) serves as lead pastor of teaching at the Village Church in Dallas, Texas, and president of the Acts 29 Network. He lives in Texas with his wife, Lauren, and their three children.Jared C. Wilson is the director of content strategy at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, and managing editor of the seminary's website for gospel-centered resources, For the Church. He is a popular author and conference speaker, and also blogs regularly at Gospel Driven Church, hosted by the Gospel Coalition. His books include Your Jesus Is Too Safe, Gospel Wakefulness, Gospel Deeps, The Pastor’s Justification, The Storytelling God, and The Wonder-Working God.
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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Crossway; Reprint edition (June 30, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1433542110
ISBN-13: 978-1433542114
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5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.6 out of 5 stars
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I bought this book on the chance that some pastor out there in the Mark Driscoll Reformed vain of preaching might have gone full potty-mouth in an attempt to be relevant to urban twenty-somethings, and that I would get to be among the first to review it. This review didn't turn out to be nearly as fun to write as I hoped it would be.Instead, "explicit" was just one half of a false dichotomy introduced in the introduction (imagine that) in order to categorize all church-going Christians into one of two camps: the "assumed" Gospel people and the "explicit" Gospel people. I won't spoil the book for you by explaining the particulars here, but I will say that Chandler doesn't visit that dichotomy again until the Appendix (unless I missed something) which seemed weird given the title of the book. Perhaps the title was supposed to sound inflammatory and attract people just like me!The theme of the book is another dichotomy -- a better one -- which Chandler calls the "Gospel on the Ground" vs. the "Gospel in the Air". He takes many pages to explain that an extreme in either direction is not good. Some Christians are so heavenly minded that they ain't no earthly good (old saying), and some are so into making the Earth into heaven (liberal utopians is what I would call them) that they forget that the world is fallen and that our hope for heaven is in the next life, not this one.Most of my time spend reading this book was in trying to get to the end as quickly as possible and still say that I read the book. Many bible passages that I am well familiar were cut and pasted into this book with upbeat conversational-style commentary that explained the obvious (to anyone who has sat in the pews of any mainstream church listening to sermons for a few years) but provided no added insights (for me anyway; it did occur to me that I might not be exactly in the bullseye of audience targeted by this book).Then there were many passages of other Christian books cut and pasted in with the same conversational-sytle commentary that...you guessed it...pointed out the obvious but added no additional insights. It got me thinking that maybe I could be reading those more renowned Christian books or even...the Bible itself!... rather than reading this book. I found myself so familiar with this kind of material and writing that repeadedly broke from reading mode to scanning mode waiting for the next thought-byte to begin.Pastor Chandler does make some good points (very good points) in this book, but it's like eating through a box of Lucky Charms cereal -- mainly the same redundant frosted oats that comprise many cereals, but occasionally getting one of those sweet surprises. If you are anything like me, you quickly start wondering if there is better stuff to eat for breakfast, and with this book you start wondering whether your reading time might be better spent. (Your money is GONE dude!)I will give Pastor Chandler genuine credit for striving for balance in many of the subjects he covers in his book. Some of the points made in the "Response" chapter are very much what I needed someone to say to me right now in my life and his paragraph about using church as a hobby was worth the price of the book to me.Still, I found too much sloppy reasoning for this book to get more than a two star rating.Page 33 to 34. Chandler's "revolutionary" claim that "Scriptures reveal that the foremost desire of God's heart is not our salvation but rather the glory of his own name." And if the "Westminster divines" don't convince you with their creed (written a scant 1600 years after Jesus walked the Earth), there's always prooftexing. At least Chandler admits that he's doing it on page 35.Oh, and to respond to the cutesy footnote number 5 there...The charge of "prooftexting" does indeed often come from those who don't like another's conclusion, and the reason why those conclusions are often not liked is because the very process of "prooftexting" is to: 1) come to a conclusion, and then 2) cherry pick "texts" to "prove" the conclusion that was arrived at before considering the text. Pop-Christian books like these are rife with this type of "reasoning", but thankfully Chandler does not do this as shamelessly as have other pop-Christian authors I've read.In Acts 17 Paul writes:From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.So, given that God does act to glorify His own name as shown in the Sciptures, is that an end in itself, as Chandler seems to believe, or is it so that humans would reach out, find Him and trust Him, and so that He could save them? I personally find it rather arrogant whenever any human claims to know "the foremost desire of God's heart", but my guess from Scripture (beginning to end) is that God does great things to glorify His name (to those on Earth and in the cosmos) so that his beloved creation -- that would be us -- will reach out, find him, and be in relationship to Him.Page 59. Chandler writes, "The bad news is not just that we don't measure up to the law but that by the works of the law none of us will be justified before God (Gal 2:16). The passage directly before this is "We are Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles". Paul was writing to Jewish Christians in the Church of Galatia. The bad news for them is that they cannot be justified by works of the law (Law of Moses in context). The bad news for us Gentiles (likely the reader of this review) is that unless God had showed Peter in that vision that Gentiles were eligible for salvation through faith, we are all done for! Salvation by works of the Jewish Law was never even on the table for us!Chandler writes on page 80, "We are never ever going to make Christianlity so cool everybody wants it." True, but those who get paid to sit around and think up how to win souls might try thinking about what the Gospel message is for modern pagans, not First Century Jewish Christians (the primary audience of much of Paul's writings).Page 84. Chandler writes,"Everybody come out of the womb in rebellion.", and then he goes to prove the doctrine of Original Sin. So, Chandler not only knows the foremost desire of God's heart, he also can read the minds of newborns (or he remembers being one himself). Or, maybe he just uses prooftexting to "prove" his point. He quotes David's famous passage in Psalms 51:5, "Behold I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me."Did Jesse and Nitzevet bat Adel (Babylonian Talmud: Baba Bathra 91) really sin during the conception of their youngest son? How so? Could it be that this passage is David's poetic way of expressing the deepest disgust for himself? And, If taken literally, David is talking about himself and not making a blanket statement about all of mankind throughout history.I watched both my sons being born. I didn't see rebellion (that's later for sure) but I did see fear and hunger. Anything sinful about that? We all fall short of the glory of God and need salvation through Christ, but how that happens is a mystery to me and I am content to leave it as one.To satirize the Rick Warren quote on the cover, if you read only one book this year and this one is it, you are a lazy slacker who might have a few things to think about that you didn't before -- assuming you think about spiritual things at all -- and you should probably read more books this year. I predict that in a year this will be one of those books where the shipping costs are a multiple of it's value on the used book market.
This book is in your face which can do one of two things: put you on the defensive or blow your mind.Let me warn you, if you find yourself becoming defensive over his ideas in this book before you get upset and throw it across the room, ask yourself what it is that has brought out that emotion in you and analyze yourself a bit. Most likely, you will learn something about yourself that you didn't even realize was there. Had you thrown the book across the room, you will probably have missed something that could transform you in bigger ways than you could ever imagine. Read it, you will know what I mean.Now that I started with that, let me tell you what I liked about the book:-Occasionally when he tell stories, they are vivid stories that serve as poignant illustrations for what he is trying to teach. Not only does it entertain the reader, but you can definitely relate to where he is coming from.-He is so honest about his own sin. He doesn't preach at you, he is completely authentic in who he is and where he has come from and where he struggles currently. I think often times preachers who write books avoid talking about themselves because they fear it will look bad or hypocritical or that they have to maintain a "perfect" image to teach what they are trying to teach so people believe them. Not Matt. He is real and honest and that is effective.-Chandler has a way of understanding human behavior and pointing out, not just the massive ways we fall short, but the minute tiny things that we do on a daily basis that hurt us and we don't even realize it. We have so much to gain from that understanding in our sanctification.-This book as blown my mind, not surprisingly, and given me new realms of understanding that I want to pursue in my relationship with Jesus. I can't speak for everyone but I know that I know, in theory, what Christ did on the cross and I know that I know, in theory, who God is, but I really want to fully grasp the reality of what all that means, not just for me but for those I share the gospel with. I think this is a fantastic jumping off point for me to really pursue that.Constructive Criticism:Matt writes like he preaches, which can be really effective when you are listening to him, but I found it a bit more challenging when reading it. It helps that I have heard him speak so I can imagine what vocal emphasis he might use here or there. I could sort of hear him in my head. As another reviewer said, he does go off on tangents. I plan to reread this book, hopefully in a study of some sort so I can really talk it out with folks to help me wrap my mind around a lot of it. He has quite the vocabulary which honestly shouldn't deter you at all from reading the book, but I had to stop and think a lot in context if I didn't know what a word was, or look it up. Frankly, that adds to my own learning and understanding so it isn't really a bad thing. Just takes a couple more seconds and it isn't often enough to make me not read it. It's not THAT far above my head.Other reviews:I think it's important to realize his goal in this book, which should be obvious to you as you read what he is really trying to accomplish by writing it. I have to give him 4 stars only because of the writing style and it being hard to follow AT TIMES, but this is a game changing book.Many reviewers dinged him a star or two because it wasn't what they expected. I don't think that tells you anything about the book itself. So that's not so helpful. Some folks disagreed with the title of the book and expected the book to exegetically go through the gospel and explain it in detail. It's semantics really. Matt Chandler wants us to be explicit about what the gospel means in our lives and when we share the gospel with others. He explains the dangers of omitting things because they aren't popular to the unchurched or churches trying to hard to attract people by watering down theology to attract more people, etc. Thus encouraging us as Christians to not only be explicit in sharing it but in living it.He does explain the love of Christ, he does explain the cross, etc. Maybe not the way other reviewers wanted him to, but unfortunately for them, Matt Chandler wrote the book, they didn't. His title is not a misnomer.I disagree with the claim that he makes nonessentials essentials. A few said this. I think those readers either misunderstood those pieces in context to the point he was making, didn't want to see it or were finding something to be nit-picky about. Read it and decide for yourselves. Hopefully you will have enough foresight not to get stuck in that. It will change your perspective on "religion," on how you see God, the cross, Christians, yourself, etc. It's a must read.
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