A short monologue (YouTube video) arguing that the gospel should be understood as a process of "rupture and repair": God intentionally set creation so that humans experience a fall (rupture) and subsequent redemption (repair) through mercy and grace. The speaker (Nick Stumbo) claims this design makes redemption qualitatively better than mere innocence, framing human need and repair as a reflection (a "shadow and echo") of the gospel.
The gospel is the message of rupture and repair. That is what our salvation is. God has set up the world in such a way that somehow, by his mercy, by his grace, what we will have in the end is so much greater than what we would have had had there never been the initial rupture. Maybe it's a better thing. A better thing to be more than merely innocent, but to be lost and redeemed by love. I believe the reason why God designed human beings to need a process of rupture and repair is because it is a shadow of and an echo of the gospel.
