Through the years I’ve seen, and engaged in. both extremes of evangelistic endeavor. One extreme is beating people over the head with the judgment and wrath of God. The other extreme is focusing mainly on God’s love, improperly defining sin and never getting to judgment and wrath. Both are WRONG! They both assume that the primary goal of the salvation of men is making it to heaven, and both of them, to a degree, are man-centered. One has the ‘candidate for salvation’ escaping certain Hell and making it, while the other has him/her enthusiastically jumping to the lap of a cuddly grandfather. The former fails to express God’s great love in salvation and the latter overemphasizes it and offers a mere caricature of God.

The fact of the matter is that the salvation of anyone is first to demonstrate the riches of God’s grace, according to His pleasure, and for His glory!

Therefore, the best starting point for anyone who desires to share the true gospel of Christ is a proper knowledge of His Father. Listen to the beginning of the high priestly prayer Christ offered to His Father just before he went obediently to His death:

“Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.”- John 17:1-3

It is only when we know the Father, both His goodness and severity (Romans 11:22) that we can truly behold the Son.

Have a blessed day. – B4B