“One way to view the New Testament is as the record of the earliest attempts to express the gospel in comprehensible form, and when we examine its range of texts, we quickly discover that the gospel has found expression in a variety of forms. In this passage, a logical argument is being developed; in that text, a straightforward narrative is being told; over here, an enigmatic parable is being unfolded; and over there, a hymn is being sung. All these forms—stoiy and syllogism, poem and pronouncement, epistle and apocalypse—are found in the culture, but in every case the borrowed form is employed to serve the proclamation of the gospel. No one form is adequate to display the fullness of the gospel. Many forms are used, each selected in turn to express some aspect of the gospel on a particular occasion.” p. 154