In Mark Dever's book "The Gospel & Personal Evangelism" he has a quotation from a very famous TV evangelist, which caused me to stop and reflect. Here it is....
"I don't think that anything has been done in the name of Christ and under the banner of Christianity that has proven more destructive to human personality, and hence counterproductive to the evangelistic enterprise, than the unchristian, uncouth strategy of attempting to make people aware of their lost and sinful condition"
Does anyone else have a problem with this? Our greatest problem is that we are sinful from birth and therefor enemies of God. Christ is our greatest need! In order for us to understand the necessity of Jesus Christ we need to understand why. The why is because we are lost and sinful. Our greatest need is not health or wealth, it is not happiness, it is not even food or water. Our greatest need is to be saved from the Wrath of God! If we teach that the recognition of sin is not important are we not saying that Christ died in vain?
