The gospel is the counterintuitive, joyous, exuberant news that Jesus has brought the unending, limitless, stunning love of God to even us.
...by offering us giant Twinkies. Or, insert anything you'd like.
Bell, for whatever reason, can't actually bring himself to say what the good news is. To him, it is explanation enough to say that it is "love." But could anyone be saved by knowledge of the 'exuberant news' as he describes it? Can you truly understand the gospel without knowledge of the horribly serious way in which Christ came to us in love? Why does his statement feel a million miles away from "[B]ut God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us"?
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