My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. (John 10.27)
Have you ever been overcome with frustrated despair as you wonder how to get through to your professing Christian friend? Have you looked into the eyes of an unbeliever and asked yourself how you might bring them to Christ? Have you wondered how you might appeal to them and somehow have them follow the Savior? If you are a pastor, have you sat in your study and wondered how you might help people to get it?
To one degree or another all believers have struggled through such thoughts.
Often times though in our noble ambitions we find ourselves retreating to unbiblical means.
We aim to make Christ more appealing to the one who seems to not think that he is so. This usually means giving Jesus something of an extreme makeover so that the eligible unbeliever might be one over. We might be tempted to change his message, his tone, his requirements, his work, his kingdom, and his demands. Suddenly our ostensibly noble goal has placed in our hands the tools of idolatry as we craft a Jesus that looks like the rebel.
But this is not the way it works. Keep Reading>>>
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