Bradley Nassif

It is not just the Catholic wing of the historic churches which have elements within them insisting upon a recapture of the central kerygma – which, as Fr. Cantalamessa noted in his talk is sometimes simply called “the Gospel” – but we see this too amongst some of the Orthodox theologians. So Bradley Nassif, a Lebanese Christian who grew up in American in the Antiochan Orthodox Church – and who says, “I am deeply indebted to evangelical Christians who helped bring me into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ during my high school years,” (Gundry & Stamoolis, eds., Three Views on Eastern Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2004), p. 27 – notes in his article, “Reclaiming the Gospel,” found at < http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles6/NassifGospel.php > that, “The most urgent need in the Orthodox world today is the need for an aggressive "internal mission" of (re)converting our people to Jesus Christ. The gospel of Christ and our life in Him need to be reclaimed as the very centerpiece of Church life…. [T]he basic gospel message […, t]he life-changing message of the forgiveness of sins and new life in Christ must be deliberately applied to the entire sacramental life of the Church.”

Source: Bradley Nassif - “Reclaiming the Gospel,” as quoted in footnote 41 of "Evangelicals Cooperatively Evangelising & Discipling with Catholics in Faithfulness to Evangelical Distinctives", by Paul Miller
http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles6/NassifGospel.php