Passage: 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 Description: The biblical gospel is the announcement of four great realities — the character of God, the sinfulness of man, the saving work of Jesus Christ, and the required response of faith and repentance. Get these four truths right, and you have the gospel. Neglect any one of them, and you have something less than the gospel, which is to say, no saving gospel at all.