The offence of the gospel. The gospel is always offensive. For us today it is offensive to suggest we sin, we are in need of God. For Paul, it was offensive to suggest we are all loved. This was offensive. Today we have an overdeveloped sense of the goodness of human nature, they had an underdeveloped sense of Human goodness. The gospel is offensive it says we are more selfish and depraved than we would ever dare admit and loved more than we ever dare hope.
