Introduction I have, in the past, written favourably on a holistic ministry and an understanding of mission as transformation. [1] I fear, however, that there is a distortion of the Gospel that we are facing after years of confusing holistic ministry with the Gospel itself. It seems to me that we are in a position of having to refocus our understanding of the Gospel and mission on Jesus and his gift on the cross lest we slip into various errors that distort the Gospel in our day. A Brief Historical Overview Church historian Richard Lovelace describes a ‘Delta Effect’ in the 1870s in America that divided the Social Gospel from the Personal Gospel that Evangelicals had, up until that time, held together. [2] The latter came to be associated with American Fundamentalism, with its individual and spiritual understanding of salvation that did not include social action, development, justice, or concern for the environment. [3] The former came to be associated with a liberal theol