Jared Wilson delivered a message in a breakout at The Gospel Coalition’s 2019 National Conference titled “The Gospel-Driven Church,” sharing principles that can be found in his book by the same name. In the session, Wilson addressed the gospel-recovery movement of the last decade or so, expressing delight in the desire of churches and leaders to set aside the attractional model of church in favor of a more biblically sound one.

Wilson warned, however, that even those who have bought into a gospel-driven focus must be careful that it not become simply nomenclature attached to the same old practices. He then delved into four practices of gospel-driven churches and encouraged leaders to “continually slough off the baggage of doctrinal add-ons and distractions, cutting out the ever-rising innovations, theological and otherwise. Let us keep contending, keep trusting, keep returning to the ancient marker of the cross.”

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