Mike Conroy, at LifeReformation blog, has a great post that is worth the time to read.
Perhaps before we go out to defend that the Bible is absolutely true, binding, and authoritative we should make sure that the people we are talking to actually understand what the Bible says. It seems to be that more and more people that I talk to really don’t know what the Bible is about.
When we talk to people using phrases that we understand – sin, faith, judgment, hell, heaven, repentance, Jesus, the cross, resurrection, etc. – we need to know that they might have no idea what these words really mean. Hardly anyone knows what sin is and why it’s serious. How can they be helped if we simply tell them, “You can be forgiven of your sins if you repent and believe in the Gospel”?
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