A focused treatment of Jesus himself: his relationship to God the Father, his deity and his incarnation, and his centrality to everything the Christian life consists of. MacArthur's particular concern is the word Lord, and his argument is that it cannot be separated from the word Savior without changing the gospel into something the New Testament would not recognize.

That argument placed MacArthur at the center of the lordship salvation debate, and this short volume states his side of it plainly for a general reader rather than in the technical form of his larger books. Readers who want the longer case will find it in The Gospel According to Jesus; this is the compact version, short enough to give away.