In 2005 Dr. Sullivan Spoke at First Baptist Church in Ocala Florida the title of the message was,

Christology of the Gospel Important.  I have found that the note I took then are more profound now in our day and time.

“It does not matter what else we say, what else we preach, if we don’t get this right, the Christology of the Gospel, we may as well declare ourselves a civic club, a social club, or some other entity. “This is the most important thing about the word of God.  There is NO salvation outside of Jesus Christ. He is the savior of the world. What is the Christology of the Gospel? The Christology of the Gospel deals with the duality of Jesus as god the and as Jesus the man. Jesus must be seen as the Holy One. 

His goodness was more than a lack of faults as measured by the norm of human ethics; it is the righteousness in relation to man and holiness in relation to God that constituted Jesus as the savior of the world. There is a narrowness in Jesus Christ; the culture of today treats “all religious beliefs as truth.” “Jesus said, I am the Way, the truth, and the life.”  There is NO ultimate truth outside of Jesus. Dr. Sullivan used to say, “When we allow reason to sap the foundation in order to strengthen the building, we make a tragic theological blunder.” The Gospel must be understood Christologically, or it ceases to be the Gospel. As I continue to study the Word of God, I find that Jesus drew distinctions and set boundaries. He is either the Son of God or he is not the Son of God. Either He is the savior of the whole world, or He is not the savior of the whole world. I have made up my mind -He is the savior of the world. In my opinion, with all the things that are facing Southern Baptists, not to mention facing our world, we MUST be concerned with “slippage” in our beliefs, and we can prevent this by returning to the foundation found in Scripture.

You think about that! Amen