Description: Jesus as Savior, Sanctifier, Healer, and Coming King. "This Gospel seems to grow each year, and I have not yet begun to fathom its incoruptible richness and infinie fulness." - A.B. Simpson
Albert Benjamin Simpson (1843-1919) was a preacher, theologian, author, and founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA), an evangelical protestant denomination with an emphasis on global evangelism. Simpson was a most effective communicator of the Word of God, and his preaching brought great blessing and converts wherever he served.
The Fourfold Gospel is A.B. Simpson's enduring classic that plainly yet profoundly explains and proclaims the four folds that unify the Gospel of Jesus Christ: Christ the Savior, Christ the Sanctifier, Christ the Healer, and Christ the Coming King.
In an article writtern in 1891, entitled "Fourfold Unity," Simpson compared the four folds to a chorus that would be inharmonious with only one voice, or two or even three. Only when all four parts - alto, tenor, soprano, and bass - are present is there true hamrony. "...this imperfect figure," he said, "enables us to understand how, in the Fourfold Gospel, we have the elements of a Christian unity which no other fellowship could give."
The Fourfold Gospel is sublime in its ideal of Christian living, for it presents the highest life possible for redeemed men and women. It proclaims a Christ life that is a reporduction of Christ himself, a miniature and living epistle of the Son of Man. The practical results that develop from such a life are just as high and glorious.
