Tampering with the Gospel

The evangelical Christian author John Stott has well said:

"To tamper with the gospel is to trouble the Church....Indeed, the Church's greatest troublemakers (now as then) are not those outside who oppose, ridicule and persecute it, but those inside who try to change the gospel....Conversely, the only way to be a good churchman is to be a good gospel-man. The best way to serve the Church is to believe and to preach the gospel."¹

Ironically, even Tom Stegall of Duluth Bible Church, after tampering with the gospel by removing Christ's burial from his former church's doctrinal statement on the "SOLE CONDITION FOR SALVATION" (i.e. the gospel), writes: "the wickedest transgression according to the Word of God is tampering with the gospel."²


ENDNOTES:

¹ John Stott, The Message of Galatians (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1968), "The Bible Speaks Today."

² Tom Stegall, "The Tragedy of the Crossless Gospel Pt. 9," The Grace Family Journal (Special Edition 2008), p. 1.