What Is The Gospel and what does it do?

[Dale (evolutionary providentialist)]

He is still the Sovereign God of providence, whom, as I recall, you decry.

@Dale

God’s providence (as in ‘evolutionary providentialism’) can be ‘ordinary’* without any particularly unexpected or notable occurrences can still be life changing. From my reading the other night:

In Lydia’s conversion there are many points of interest. It was brought about by providential circumstances. She was a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, but just at the right time for hearing Paul we find her at Philippi; providence, which is the handmaid of grace, led her to the right spot.

It’s largely about timing and placing. I’m sure Lydia was thankful.

*Unlike the several accounts of God’s providence I (and one by Glenn Morton) have related elsewhere in this forum, perhaps [mis]leading to the impression that all instances of Father’s interventions must include something surprising.