Don't change the message!

Ray Comfort- Don't change the message!

posted Feb 22, 2012 4:45 AM by mark cowperthwaite   [ updated Feb 25, 2012 7:26 PM ]

This article comes from Ray Comfort's blog. Read the whole article here. Be sure to subscribe to Ray's blog for more practical wisdom and teaching about the Christian walk and proclaiming the Gospel.  The Apostle Paul followed in the steps of Jesus by using the moral Law to bring the knowledge of sin (see Romans 3:19,20). When a rich young man ran to Jesus and asked how he could find everlasting life, Jesus didn’t speak of a wonderful plan, or even of God’s love or the cross. He firstly reproved the man’s understanding of the word "good," then He gave the man five of the Ten Commandments (seeMark 10:17-21) so that He would know how the nature of God’s goodness. He had to be confronted with his crimes against His Creator. So if you want to be faithful to the Word of God and to the Great commission to “preach the gospel to every creature,” don’t change the message. Don’t adjust it because you want to make it more palatable to the sinner or because you are afraid of rejection. Don’t change it because you want to follow in the footsteps of modern preachers, because they are not going in the right direction. Modern methods have wreaked havoc within the Church—filling it with tares among the wheat, resulting in a Church that looks little like the God-fearing, fiery, fearless, evangelistic Church of the Book of Acts, who faced death rather than compromise the message.  Read the whole article here