Finished: Why the Cross Doesn't Need Your Help (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798257670404)

The cross was either enough or it wasn't. If it was, why does the church keep handing you a to-do list?

In Finished, David Bishop dismantles the works-based doctrines that have buried the Gospel under centuries of institutional addition. Purgatory. Indulgences. The confessional. The sacramental toll road. Marian devotion. Papal infallibility. The elevation of tradition over Scripture. Chapter by chapter, with raw clarity and Scripture-saturated authority, Bishop holds each teaching up against what Paul, Jesus, and the New Testament actually say about grace, faith, and the sufficiency of the cross.

This book is written for the person in the pew - or the person who stopped going to the pew - who has spent years wondering whether they are doing enough. Praying enough. Confessing enough. Performing enough to earn what God already gave them for free.

With the directness of a forty-year industrial engineer and the heart of a man who has wrestled with these questions himself, Bishop writes the way he talks: plain, honest, and without apology. No seminary jargon. No theological doublespeak. Just the Bible, held up next to the system, and the system measured against the cross.

What you will find in these pages:
- The meaning of tetelestai - the commercial and legal term Christ used from the cross
- Why the thief on the cross demolishes the entire sacramental system
- How Paul's letter to the Galatians is the original anti-works manifesto
- The real meaning of "faith without works is dead" - and why James and Paul do not contradict each other
- Why the mortal-venial sin distinction, the confessional, purgatory, indulgences, and the Treasury of Merit all oppose the sufficiency of the cross
- How the priesthood of all believers eliminates the need for a clerical intermediary
- Why apostolic succession and papal infallibility have no foundation in Scripture
- How to talk to the Catholics you love - with grace, not condemnation

This is not an attack on Catholic people. It is a liberation of the Gospel from the system that has obscured it.

It is finished. You are free. The cross is enough.

Stop performing. Start resting.

Author: David Bishop
ISBN-13: 9798257670404
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 04/16/2026
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d