Ten.

Revolution

"If we are ever to rescue God’s good news from all the justifiable but secondary meanings it has taken on, perhaps the best way to do it is to say that the root meaning of the term evangelion would today best be translated “revolution.” Originally it is not a religious or a personal term at all, but a secular one: “good news.” But evangelion is not just any welcome piece of information, it is news which impinges upon the fate of the community. “Good news” is the report brought by a runner to a Greek city, that a distant battle has been won, preserving their freedom; or that a son has been born to the king, assuring a generation of political stability. “Gospel” is good news having seriously to do with the people’s welfare. Today we might speak of the end of the Vietnam war in this sense; not merely an event that makes some of us happy, but one which shapes our common lives for the better. This is not only true of the meaning of the word we translate “gospel,” in its ordinary secular usage outside the New Testament; it is true as well of the story which the New Testament calls by this name. Mary’s outburst of social enthusiasm in the Magnificat is only one sample; but the response of her kinsman Zechariah to the birth of his son is to sing that God has now come: “...age after age he proclaimed by the lips of his holy prophets, that he would deliver us from our enemies, out of the hands of all who hate us…” (Luke 3:9–11)"
~John Howard Yoder