A guilty conscience?
Steve at On Earth as in Heaven posts some thoughts about why so much evangelism focuses on making us feel guilty (or, at least, on our being guilty) rather than on what the Gospel tells us that we will become.
One of the interesting things to come out of the ‘beyond the fringe’ research was that peoples personal aspirations, not surprisingly, where for happiness, family, relationships and success. However more surprisingly people on the whole didn’t chose those who had achieved this as those hey admired, rather they chose, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and yes Jesus. Might they secretly wish they could be like that too? Might the gospel that frees us from sin and death be the gospel that says, actually you can be like Jesus?
pax et bonum
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