Lately, I have been contemplating God as a verb - Love. It seems to me that the relationship between the personages of the Trinity is what is emphasized most, anyway. Just a thought....
GREAT!!!
but don't forget about shaking the earth once, and once more shaking heaven and earth.............
and fire and brimstone on sodom and ghomorrah, as an ensample for those who would live ungodly.
as saved Christians, BY HIS GRACE, YES, YES, YES, WE SEE LOVE
but we can never forget about His coming plan to destroy those who reject Jesus. in a lake of fire. scary stuff. this is Love...why? because He is not going to renew the earth and start His family in eternity with rebels. it's not His will that any should perish but that all should come to repentence. so if you REALLY want to preach a God of Love, you MUST tell people that He so loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son IN OUR PLACE, PAID THE SIN DEBT for whosoever will accept.
God isn't seeker sensitive or in it to make this your best life ever. He is in it to make a full END TO SIN.
PERIOD.
NO MORE REBELS.
PERIOD.
ETERNITY is for those who LOVE HIM. PERIOD.
all the other yayayayayayayayayayayayaa is about finding a way to not FEAR HIM NOW.
BUT FEAR OF GOD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM.
if Jesus Has reconciled you to God by His work on the Cross, and by the empty tomb, there's nothing to FEAR.
if you reject Jesus, i tell you FEAR FEAR FEAR. if you are a lost sinner, this is the most loving message i can give you.