Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.

Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel.

The gospel doesn't just ignite the Christian life but it keeps Christians growing and growing every day. There's no reason to move beyond the gospel. There's only movement more into it.

The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.