What we say we believe vesus what we proclaim. Sometimes they are two different things. Why? Shouldn’t we give the gospel we say we believe? Do others need less of the gospel than we do? If Scripture says we MUST believe certain things to be saved, then why would we NOT say this to the lost? Is this not hording the treasure, the freedom? We have the truth, but let the others stumble in the dark trying to find bits and pieces, or worse, give them enough to bait them to come back to us later to find out the rest of the truth?
I suggest folks read Acts and see how the Gospel was proclaimed. The fact of Jesus being Lord and God, who lived and died on the cross on behalf of sinners for tthe forgiveness of their sin and then rose again from the dead "according to the Scriptures" is paramount.
Go here for a quick glimpse at what the Gospel declared in Acts did or did not entail in Acts (clue: "God isn't crazy about you" is missing ). But the most important place to go to, as I already suggested, is the Word first. Read Acts for yourself. Read 1Cor. 15, too.
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