A Provocative Thought on the Gospel

Besides the fact that Scripture never refers to the gospel as having a "personal relationship with Jesus" nor defines faith as a decision to "ask Jesus to come into our heart," this concept of salvation fails to realize that everyone has a personal relationship with God already: either as a condemned criminal standing before a righteous judge or as a justified coheir with Christ and adopted child of the Father (Michael Horton,Christless Christianity, 74).