Welcome to After the Fact, a knowing faith many episode where we look to take a big question

and address it in just a few minutes. Typically the questions we consider will line up with

our larger topic for the season that's certainly true for our time today. We are discussing

Romans on knowing faith this season and joining us today is Dr. Jonathan Pinington. Dr. Pinington

is professor of New Testament at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the pastor of

spiritual formation at Sojourn East Church in Louisville. He is also the author of several books

including, but not limited to, reading the Gospels wisely, the sermon on the mount and human flourishing,

Jesus the Great Philosopher, and small preaching. 25 little things you can do now to make you a

better preacher. Dr. Pinington, welcome to After the Fact. Thanks for joining us.

Always great to chat with you.

Well, Dr. Pinington, you are a friend of the show. We've had you on many times to talk about

big issues, small issues, and I'm glad that you're here again. Here's our big question today.

Is Paul's Gospel different from Christ's Gospel? Such a great question and an important one,

because we really care about the Bible being unified, right? We believe that the Bible's all

speaking with one voice yet. Also, it doesn't always say the same thing on every page, so it's a

great question to ask. Now, as you know, I'm a Gospels guy, so I spend most of my life in the

Gospels. So I think it's fun for me to ask this question, too, as we think about how do the

Gospels relate to this famous letter of Paul, the letter to the Romans? And how I'd answer that

is, I'd say, that what's entirely consistent between the Gospels and all of Paul's letters

is that they all think the Gospels is the message about the kingdom of God. Now,

that may not initially strike one when you first start reading Romans, especially,

because we as Protestants of Romans has really played a central role in understanding of emphasizing

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