Hey, this is Aaron, So no one has put a post on here in a long time, so I thought I would spice it up!!
As a Bible-believing Christian, I believe that all Christians are called to go out and preach the Gospel to all creation and all men (Mark 16:15, Matthew 28:19-20). And the question that Christian just cannot agree on is how to go about doing that. Some people would say that we must do relational evangelism. They say that primarily we should show the love of Jesus and/or tell them only about the love of Jesus. This is completely absurd for a number of reasons.
First, we must preach the Gospel and it must be preached in full!! It says in Romans 10 “How can they believe what they have not heard.” So that verse alone destroys the whole view of loving people to Christ without telling them about Him. And when we do tell them about Jesus, we must preach the whole Gospel because also in Romans 1:16, it says, “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel since it is God’s power unto salvation.” What we must preach is the full Gospel. And what is the full Gospel?!? Well very simply the Gospel must include the Justice of God, sin, hell, judgment, and wrath followed by Jesus, the Love of God, cross, substitutionary atonement, propitiation, expiation, and redemption (John 5:27-30, Hebrews 10:26-31, Romans 6:23, Romans 3:23-27, 1 Corinthians 15:3). We must not wimp out when it comes to preaching the justice of God just because some hateful evangelist screamed at everyone and told everyone, including Christians, that they were going to hell. We must preach it, and we must preach it hard!
Many people don’t like this idea of preaching the justice of God. It is necessary to preach the justice of God to completely understand the cross in order to completely understand the love of God. For 1 John 4:10 says, “This is love: not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as a propitiation for our sins.” The more we understand our sinfulness and depravity, the more we see how much God truly does love us. So I am all about the love of God, and that is why I preach the justice as well. “She loves much because she is forgiven much.” We need to show people how much they are forgiven so that they will love God. And as 1 Corinthians say, we must not rely on human wisdom when we preach the Gospel. Don’t worry about the response… worry about the truth! We must understand exactly what the Puritans said, “The same sun that hardens the clay, melts the ice.”
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