Super Bowl LVIII was played last Sunday, and a great deal is being said on the interwebs about one of the advertisements by a group called He Gets Us. It shows a series of people washing the feet of others and ends with the message, “Jesus didn’t teach hate. He washed feet.” Then it says,…
Category: evangelism
Believe in the Lord Jesus and You Will Be Saved
It has become fashionable for Christians to tell their neighbors and friends to “make Jesus Lord.” They say a person must accept Jesus as their personal savior and make Him Lord of their life. I am not opposed to using phrases and words which are not directly found in the Bible if they capture a…
Jesus: True Friend of Sinners
WWJD with Gay Neighbors? What would Jesus do if He lived next door to a gay couple? What if He met them one day as they were coming out of their apartment? Would He make small talk? Would He act like everything were cool? Would He try to get them to like Him and be…
Getting the Moral Cart before the Gospel Horse
Bekah and I were in our twenties living in a little house in Pinson, AL. Across the street lived a young couple, and we struck up a loose friendship with them. One might consider them, perhaps, typical of their culture and age. She tended towards the Goth trend with dark makeup, dyed hair, and conspicuous…
Winning Souls for Christ
Evangelical churches have pushed “winsomeness” over the past few decades as the way we should present the gospel to the lost. “Why are not more coming to faith?” they asked. “Why are we not seeing more people flooding into the kingdom of Christ? How can we better win souls to the Lord?” They then looked…