We all know advertising is everywhere; we deal with it every day, subliminal messages from every angle trying to pry their way into our lives. We have become accustomed to it in our society; everyone has a product they want to sell. It does scare me a little to think that Jesus is often one of these products that we sell. We market Jesus, we advertise Jesus, and to many people He has become just another product that we buy to maintain our image. There is a fine line between an evangelist and salesman. As churches we often find ourselves trying to reach people the same way any other money loving company would. We find a target audience to sell Jesus to. We change the way Jesus looks, making him pretty and likeable so the consumer will want him. We lie about the attributes of God and never bring up important aspects of his character such as his wrath and justice. These characteristics of God are essential to the gospel. However, they are also offensive, and apparently that is not good for business if you know what I mean. Why do we think that we have to be cool or smart to win people to Christ, we do not posses the power to change peoples hearts. I am pretty sure that is all up to God.
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who writes these articles???? they are good, whoever does!!
Hey there Mr. Wiskus since you left a comment on mine i'll leave a comment on yours...
I agree there are a lot of people going about evangelism horribly wrong. They drag the name of Jesus through the mud and change what the bible clearly says about the nature of God just so that people might check in to their church or something. However, the gospel is offensive enough for people to hear, sin had to be judged for God to be Just-and was, but is that where we start? Let me ask you...How where you saved or better yet what helped you look into the matter more about what this Jesus offered? Was it because you heard about His Justice and Wrath and thought, "You know what I think I'll stake my life on His claims?" I doubt that's how it went down. In fact I'm sure you encountered others who had a real faith and weren't afraid of tough questions and probably a person or two whom you came to trust who lead you deeper into an actual working, living saving relationship with him. So, maybe this is where we as Christians should start. I think it's funny how so many think that it should work different for others than it did for them.
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