Which raises the natural question, \u201cWhat the heck are you talking about?\u201d<\/p>\n Kress explains that, having experienced his own faith crisis, a Gospel that encourages skepticism toward others is not good news. \u201cWhen faith communities define rules of inclusion and exclusion and allocate privileges based on those rules, compassion is compromised.\u201d<\/p>\n Further, the Gospel is somewhere between the two common extremes of an \u201cabsolutely knowable\u201d commodity owned by a few, an idol that breaks easily, and \u201cabstracted\u201d ideas and theories disconnected from our\u00a0experiences.<\/p>\n So, what is the gospel I seek?\u00a0 I am inspired by the idea that the human enterprise is the overcoming of suffering, evil and death to fully express love, life and beauty.\u00a0 I hope\/believe that this human enterprise is both response to and empowered in the gospel.\u00a0 I hope\/believe that the dimensions of the Jesus story: incarnation, suffering, resurrection, and spirit are powerful explanations of the embeddedness of gospel in this universe.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Maybe, Kress muses, we think small when we think \u201cGospel.\u201d Maybe God in Christ is at work in ways and places we do not perceive, struck as we are in ourselves.<\/p>\n Happy hunting.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peteenns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/gf.jpg?ssl=1\" "\\"gf\\"")
<\/a>Over at GospelFutures<\/a>, Peter Kress is on a hunt for the Gospel<\/a>.<\/p>\n