What is the gospel? Another response

Another blog attempts to answer this question, and includes this quote from Darrell Guder:

In the exploration of the missiological implications of reductionism, I have stressed that the reduction of the gospel to individual salvation...is the gravest and most influential expression of the human drive for control...A reduced gospel trivializes God as it makes God into a manageable deity.

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[george]

Can you plain English that quote for us Darryl? Thanks

[Darryl]

If you reduce the gospel to personal salvation only, you end up reducing God as well.

[george]

"the reduction of the gospel to individual salvation...is the gravest and most influential expression of the human drive for control..." What would that mean?

[Darryl]

George: I think he might be referring to the danger of packaging and programing salvation. Individual salvation is something that we can manage and program, as opposed to biblical salvation which we can participate in but never control.