The term evangelical is often poorly defined and frequently comes with cultural and political baggage.

As the label has become more controversial, many Christians have begun to wonder if they

should abandon it altogether. In gospel people, a call for evangelical integrity,

Mike Reeves argues from a global, scriptural, and historical perspective

that, while it's not necessary to discard the label altogether,

Christians nevertheless must return to the gospel itself

in order to understand what it

truly means. He identifies the theology of evangelicalism and its essential doctrine. The

father's revelation in the Bible, the son's redemption in the gospel, and the spirit's regeneration

of the heart, calling believers to stand with integrity as people of the good news.

Today, we're pleased to share an exclusive preview of the audiobook right here on the

Crossway podcast. Let's get started.

Crossway presents Gospel People, a call for evangelical integrity.

Written and read by Michael Reeves.

Chapter 1. What are Gospel People?

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write, appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

Jude 3.

This is a book about being people of the gospel. In other words, this is a book about what it means to be evangelical. I believe that there

is a biblical case to be made for the importance and the goodness of being evangelical. I do not at all mean to

defend everything that calls itself evangelical. Far from it. Looking around at the phenomenon

of evangelicalism today, it often seems a mile wide and an inch deep. As Mark Nol famously put it, the scandal of the evangelical mind

is that there is not much of an evangelical mind. The success of the label in the 20th century

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