Was your comment,
[This is what I understood from your post…“Blah Blah, I hate Tim Keller, Blah Blah” Did I understand your post correctly?] an inside joke, sarcasm, or a legit expression? Curious,
Robert Baxter

Let me be clear: The gospel is the center of our faith, it is the beginning and end of Christianity, and we can never be too focused on the finished work of Jesus on our behalf. Any sermon that calls us to action but does not herald the redemptive work of God through Christ on behalf of His people is incomplete. The gospel can never be assumed or implied - we must make it explicit. (Which I hope you will hear if you ever listen to me preach.)

My worry is not that we would be to centered on the gospel, but that rather than actually being centered on the gospel itself we would become enamored with “Gospel-Centered” as a catchphrase that includes all of our own theological distinctives and excludes those who don’t share them.

My fear is that we will create insider language and jargon that becomes the qualifiers for whether or not we judge someone to be orthodox, rather than what they actually believe.

My fear is that “gospel-centered” would become “the next big thing” in Christian marketing and countless pastors will use it as a badge of honor to wear (much like “missional” has become over the past decade) rather than a true state of our hearts.

My fear is that instead of actually being gospel-centered we would settle for simply talking about it.

I don’t believe it’s possible to be too God-centered, too Christ-centered, too gospel-centered.

I read Bill to be saying we can be centered on the conceptualization of “gospel centrality” so much we actually miss real gospel centrality. I think some of the comments demonstrate this, and I believe Chris’s critique of Pete Wilson’s sermon demonstrated it vividly.