Scot McKnight in his book, The King Jesus Gospel, quotes one of my favorite writers and thinkers, Dallas Willard. He takes Willard’s “gospel of sin management” and puts it in his context of h0w our culture is missing the gospel.

We don’t want to follow Jesus. We want him to get rid of our sin problem, then we’ll see him in heaven. That is the gospel of sin management in a nutshell.

This quote is priceless:

‘Gospels of Sin Management’ presume a Christ with no serious work other than redeeming humankind… (and) they foster ‘vampire Christians,’ who only want a little blood for their sins but nothing more to do with Jesus until heaven.

The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited