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1 | How were you drawn to Christ? | Hos 11:4 | cwade | 66420 | ||
I have been contemplating recently the difference between "Love Evangelism" and "Fear Evangelism". Would a young person who is in a state of rebellion to everyone and everything respond better to an attempt to point out their sin and need of repentance, or to an attempt to show them how much God loves them? Even the rebellious youth, when they know they are loved and when they begin to love in return, will change their ways because of that love. To answer your question: I fear God, but I was converted when I realized how much He loved me, not because I feared going to Hell. I know each situation is different; and it is God who draws us to Him (not people). But I wish more Christians would (at least consider) witnessing through expressing love once in a while and not always by condemming sin. (But before I get yelled at let me say I know how important it is to point out sin). |
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2 | How were you drawn to Christ? | Hos 11:4 | Robert Nicholson | 66488 | ||
Dear brother: When I think on these things I am reminded of the words "the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?" Think of Saul of Tarsus, God had to bring him to his knees on the Damascus road, the jailor of Philippi an earthquake had to shake his life upside down and yet we think of Lydia with other women praying down by the riverside and we read of her "whose heart the Lord opened. I believe in each of our lives we look back and see the hand of God and realize that even before we knew it he was bringing circumstances into our path that were drawing us to himself. I agree that we must be abundantly faithful in pointing out to lost sinners their sinful condition before God. "Fear evangelism" as you call it often results in professions which are not always rooted in Christ. O the love that drew salvation's plan O the grace that brought it down to man O the mighty gulf that God did span At calvary! |
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