The "gospeling" of church language (gospel communities, gospel fellowship, gospel this and gospel that) has lead to gospel confusion. In the words of Mark Driscoll, language like this "talks a lot about the gospel...but tends to attribute a lot of the work of the Holy Spirit to the gospel."

To put it succinctly, the message of the gospel is more than simply personal salvation (although personal salvation alone is enough to rejoice in). The message of the gospel includes growing in holiness and sanctification through the filling of the Holy Spirit. The message of the gospel makes divine healing central and not peripheral. The message of the gospel offers hope in the return of Jesus.

The Holy Spirit, Divine Healing, the Return of Jesus...these are all topics that are currently considered confusing, divisive and secondary, yet they are all central to the gospel. In fact, even the assertion that these topics are central to the gospel will be considered as controversial by some.

Because some churches have rejected these topics are part of the gospel, a movement of "full gospel" churches was born in response to what was perceived to be a partial gospel. Full gospel churches exist because some believers are not Biblically satisfied with the "personal salvation only" gospel.

All Christians and churches that identify as "Evangelical" agree on the centrality of the gospel, but they don't all agree on the scope of the gospel. The scope of the gospel includes personal salvation, but also goes beyond that to include sanctification, divine healing and the return of Jesus - identifying Jesus not only as our Savior, but also as our Sanctifier, Healer and Coming King.