Fifth indictment: An unbiblical gospel invitation.
We have touched on it a bit. I want to go further. Look how we do it today. I mean, now
listen to me. The more... I have seen this everywhere. The Calvinist, the Arminian, a lot
of them share something in common. It is this, the same superficial invitation. They talk a
lot of talk about a lot of things and then they come to the invitation and it is almost as
though everyone loses their mind.
Walk up to someone says, “God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.”
Can you imagine telling that to an American?
“Sir, God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.”
“What? God loves me? Well, that’s great because I love me, too. Oh, this is wonderful.
And God’s got a wonderful plan? I got a wonderful plan for my life, too. And if I accept
him into my life I’ll have my best life now. This is absolutely wonderful.”
That is not biblical evangelism.
Let me give you something in its place. God comes to Moses and he says this.
The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger,
and abounding in lovingkindness and truth; who keeps lovingkindness for
thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no
means leave the guilty unpunished.
The reaction of Moses: “Moses made haste to bow low toward the earth and worship.”
Evangelism begins with the nature of God. Who is God? Can a man recognize anything
about his sin if he hath not a standard with which to compare himself? If we tell him
nothing but trivial things about God that tickle the carnal mind, will he ever be brought to
genuine repentance and faith?
We do not begin with, “God loves you and has a wonderful plan.” We begin with a
discourse of the full counsel of who God is. And we tell him from the start it may cost
him his life.
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