You have to tell a patient what his disease is before you can offer him a cure. And he’s got to believe that his disease will kill him before he swallows your medicine.

That’s quite so. No one seeks after God. The Bible says that and we believe the Bible to be true. We were all haters of God, each seeking his own pleasure, having no thought for God and suppressing our God-given conscience that we might do evil.

That man is so going to have a shock one day, really!

I cringe when people say that Jesus is their homeboy and all, and always point them to Colossians 1:15-20 — telling them to read and meditate upon that to truly know who Christ Jesus is.

Thanks for posting this.

There was a “missionary” staying at the resort while waiting to catch a boat to wherever his team was going to and he was wearing a tee shirt that said “Jesus is my homeboy”….I asked the guy if he realized that his “homeboy” was going to one day be his judge…..he said I was wrong because Jesus never judges anyone. I just walked away shaking my head

Phil

While I agree with you on God’s love, what I am driving at is the fact that many do not understand how vile their sins are if you simply go with the “God is love” message.

If you tell someone “God loves you” and asks them if they want to go to heaven, they will of course say “yes”! Any heathen will want to go to heaven. In fact, nobody thinks they’ll be in hell for their sins and they are good enough on the whole (give or take a gazillion lies and other sins) to go to heaven.

Without conviction of sin there’s no true repentance, but production of “carnal Christians” who don’t get transformed to see sin as God does, nor to hate it.

I know this well because I was a false convert who thought he had the best of both worlds.

On a related note, I agree with you that the definition of love has today been warped into some mushy lovey-dovey feeling devoid of all things “bad” including chastisement, correction, etc. This has extended itself into Christianity so much that anyone pointing out falsehoods and errant teachings is usually called “unloving”, while it is my opinion that it is more unloving to allow falsehoods and lies to lead many astray!

i think there’s still a place for love in the evangelistic message, especially in today’s society where the whole concept of God’s love is missing, and the concept of love is often misconstrued.