What happens when you pit the Gospel and Scripture against one another? We inevitably compromise the whole counsel of God. In this article from the Commission on Theology and Church Relations, the Rev. Dr. Richard J. Serina explains what Gospel reductionism is and how the CTCR addressed this topic in a document from 1972.

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