Monday, March 7, 2011

Truth Without Grace: The Logic of the Psycho-preacher.

I have to be honest with you. In the beginning, when God started teaching and revealing things to me, about His Word and about peoples lives, i took it to the extreme, like: "Repent or die you sinner!" Well, fortunately for me, God wasn't in a hurry to kill sinners, because the first one the be killed was myself, the biggest sinner. Of course, at that time i was a "little baby" acting as if i was a "giant" (spiritually speaking), it was too much for my small brain to understand. Today, i'm much more sympathetic to the sinners, realizing that i'm the biggest one, therefore, i abandoned the "truth only" approach. As i wrote in another Post, it's very hard to find the balance in the christian life, to demonstrate Grace and Truth without showing partiality. I'm still learning how to be a Truly Graceful person. So when i hear preachers condemning sinners, i understand their logic (been there, done that), the problem is that they don't see the Grace that is intrinsically attached to the Truth (Is Christ Divided?). Of course, if you keep walking the Truth-only path, you will reach the "point of no return", becoming what i call, a psycho-preacher. When i acted like that, i did because of ignorance, because i couldn't understand that God hates sin but He loves the sinner. That's the very reason Jesus died on the cross, to save sinners, like me. As Paul says in 1 Timothy 1:15. So, the reason preachers still preach the truth-only gospel, is because they don't know Jesus Christ intimately, they forget that once they were lost (are they found?), that they are still sinners and without Christ, they are just like the ones they are condemning. 1 John 1:8-10. Of course, once we're saved, we cannot live a life of sin, otherwise, we are denying God's grace. Romans 6:1-2. Even if it's is really hard achieve, we need to live a life of holiness. 1 Peter 1:15-16. So, what's the logic of the Psycho-preacher? This is it: Since sinners will go to hell if they don't receive Jesus, let me tell them and command fire to come down from heaven and consume them. Luke 9:51-56.

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