Maybe you said something like this:
"The gospel is the good news that God love us and has a wonderful plan in our life."All of those things may seem to be true, but not. But not one of them, individually or collectively, is the gospel.
"The good news is that Jesus can give purpose to my seemingly chaotic personal existence."
"The good news that gospel is that I can have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ."
"The good news of the gospel is that I can have my sins forgiven."
The gospel has a specific content. The gospel has an objective content to it as well as a subject of element added to it.
What the gospel is, in biblical terms, is the good news of the person and work of Jesus....
There is no gospel without atonement. There is no gospel without resurrection....
The gospel is about who Jesus is and what Jesus did.
~R.C. Sproul, What is the Gospel?
