If the gospel is truly good news, it has to be good news for everyone, for it is either an inclusive gospel or no gospel at all.
Prejudice, paranoia, the politics of exclusion - all these little systems have their day, and there are moments when they appear to prevail, but the church, we know from experience, will eventually do the right thing once it has exhausted every other alternative. We who struggle today know that a social gospel and inclusive gospel are the consequences of a hopeful gospel. In a world surrounded on every hand by bad news, we turn now to the reasonable hope of the gospel, the good news toward which scripture, Jesus, and the Spirit all point.
Peter J. Gomes in The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus (2007). Page 207.
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