The purpose of my blog.

I will be honest, there are tons of blogs I will never read or even care to read. So I admit this is for me to yell into the great abyss. To say whatever I feel I need to, and not feel illogical. This gives me a place to vent. I hope it will enrich and edify the reader.

I may post songs, poems, musings, or even a philosophical argument(how boring). I would hope it finds an audience but I care little if it does. I may post scholastic papers if I think they are good. And for fun I am going to post my last blog like thing done blogless here.

The softcore gospel. Sunday, June 20, 2010 at 1:18am

We cannot just "bring people to church." I hear this all the time

and I'll say it works 10% of the time. We want to avoid an awkward

conversation so we hear people say just get them to church. But this

cannot be our sole evangelistic effort. So you may say: "well they see

how I live differently." But the truth is if we invite someone to church

and they agree, they have a reason for it, even if that is to feel good

about themselves, and they will most likely assume that is why you go

as well. They may have no clue it is real to you. This is why talking to

people is a mandate of the gospel, without it people will believe what

they want to about you and why you go to church. So I turn to the

gospel we commonly hear.

I have been struggling through why the message of the gospel

does not

elicit the desired reaction among southern individuals. Quite awhile

ago I came to the conclusion that everyone was desensitized to the

gospel. I now believe this to be false. This brings me to the point of

this musing.

I have been reading Francis Schaeffer's book "The God Who

is There" it talked about man having a protective roof over his head to

protect him from the realization of his being guilty. That you have to

reason with someone to the point that they realize they have infinite

guilt. This brings me to the title I chose. We have a gospel "clothed" in

a cryptic language and covered with vague ambiguities. But the true

naked gospel is something that must be grasped, in strong language if

need be. It shows man staring down the barrel of the gun of God's

wrath, God sending his son to take the bullet for the church, and

believing faith in mind, soul, and heart being the only way to have

Christ's protection. True guilt, guilt that is sending mankind straight to

the lake of fire.

But we recoil away from telling people they are guilty, we fear it,

the shear nerve of telling someone that before God basically they are

screwed. But I actually think that this is a good thing manifesting itself

in a bad way. We should fear, but out of love fearing that this image-

bearer, could spend eternity under the wrath of God. The gospel

requires us to give all, it is a message for the faint of heart yet the

calling it places on us requires the strength of God. We should ask God

for the nerve to sit someone down and truly show them their guilt.

We should not disguise or dress up the gospel in our terms that

strip it of its power. The true gospel shows our necessity, our

depravity, our hopelessness, our powerlessness, and our weakness. But

the true gospel also shows God's sufficiency, God's holiness, God's

provision, God's power, and God's strength.

Without true understanding of the true ramifications of the terms

we use like "Jesus died for your sins" people we just say: "Thats cool"

and continue to be depraved haters of God. They will continue to store

up wrath for themselves. Our gospel cannot afford to be vague. We

cannot play around with the souls of others for our fear of their

opinion of us. If we do this we put the way they view us in a more

important spot than their soul.