---
title: 'What Is the Gospel?'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'J. Gresham Machen'
date: 1927-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Gospel'
- 'Apologetics'
scriptures:
- 'Romans 1'
- 'Romans 3'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/machen-1927-what-is-the-gospel
---

# What Is the Gospel?

Machen warns against indifference and Modernism, urging churches to defend and clarify the gospel as "good news"—the factual center in Christ's death and resurrection, not mere ethics.

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