A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Poverty by David Platt

Author:David Platt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: RELIGION / Christian Life / General
ISBN: 9781496405166
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Published: 2015-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Eternal Offense

The idea that God became a man—Jesus—is outlandish to multitudes around the world. More than a billion Muslims believe that God would never debase himself by becoming a man. Hundreds of millions of others think it preposterous that a man could be divine.

But the gospel’s offense goes further than simply claiming that God became a man. The gospel asserts that not only has God become a man but this God-man has been crucified. This is foolishness to contemporary men and women. Imagine taking a successful, well-dressed American man with a nice job, big house, and cool car and a freethinking American woman who thrives on her independence and leading them to a garbage dump, where a naked man hangs by nails on a tree, covered in blood, and telling them, “This is your God.” They will laugh at you, may possibly feel sorry for the man, and almost certainly will move on with their lives.

Yet the offense of the gospel reaches its peak when you tell them that their eternal destiny is dependent on whether they believe the man hanging there is their God—the Lord, Judge, Savior, and King of all creation. As soon as you say, “If you follow him, you will experience eternal life; if not, you will experience everlasting hell,” you will find yourself across a line of utmost contention in contemporary culture (and in the contemporary church, for that matter).

The gospel claims that eternity is at stake in how you and I respond to Jesus.

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