God is the Gospel - Conclusion

I just realized that I failed to post the notes from the final chapter...

• God’s highest act of love is giving us himself to love.
• Oh, how many there are for whom heaven represents merely the absence of
  pain and the presence of eternal happiness! But now comes the absolutely
  decisive question: Is this happiness in God himself or in the
  gifts of heaven?
• the Christian gospel is not merely that Jesus died and rose again; and not merely that these events appease God’s wrath, forgive sin, and justify sinners; and not merely
  that this redemption gets us out of hell and into heaven; but that
  they bring us to the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ as our
  supreme, all-satisfying, and everlasting treasure.
• the power of the gospel to transform us into radically loving
  people lies not only in our being forgiven and our being counted
  righteous, but also in our seeing and savoring the glory of Christ
  in the gospel.
• We will remember that the god of this world wants to blind our minds from seeing
  the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ (2 Cor. 4:4).