Last week I read Mark Dever’s new book “The Gospel and Personal Evangelism”, (read a chapter here) which is excellent – I thoroughly recommend reading it and being challenged and inspired by Mark’s passion for evangelism and making the name of Jesus known. Today I’ve been looking at Jesus’ diagnosis for the human condition and his self-giving cure. Mark talks about it in this way:
“True Christianity is realistic about the dark side of our world, our life, our nature, our heart. But true Christianity is not finally pessimistic or morally indifferent, encouraging us to merely settle in and accept the cold, hard truth. No. The news that we, as Christians, have to bring is so great, so tremendous, not only because our depravity is so pervasive and our sin so widespread, but also because God’s plans for us are so different, so wonderful.
“And when we begin to realise it, we become thankful for the fact that Christianity is not finally about anesthetising us to life’s pain, or even about waking us up to it and teaching us to live with it. It is about teaching us to live with a transforming longing, with a growing faith, with a sure and certain hope of what’s to come.”
God bless.
Dear Freedom
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