is today considered in many corners of evangelism. Again and again, do you also think about why today is the testimony of the community in such a barren soil. It used to have been times when people came in droves to preach, and changed their lives. What is preventing the evangelism today?
This weekend I made some thoughts about the righteousness of God before. Paul writes in Romans that Christ is the righteousness that people need, to stand before God. Everyone sins and has lost his life. His reward is God's wrath and eternal death. The Gospel that we proclaim want is that God is gracious and made his son for us to sin. He carried the cross for the punishment of my iniquity. Through faith in Christ, I'll just - by grace!
rung on these thoughts in me suddenly a thought that I no longer get rid of. Can it be that the self-righteousness of Christians the greatest obstacle to effective evangelism? Who among us has ever told his neighbor, or friend, or his relative: "Look at me. I am the most miserable Sinners, whom you can imagine. If the sin in me for a moment would be given free room, I was able to worst thing you can imagine. I have squandered my life, and deserve, that God condemns me. "Instead, we prefer to convince our interlocutors of his inadequacy. We, however, like to stay on the righteous side, and raise such a self-righteous feeling.
Why are we not be honest and tell people how it is really about us? This approach would not likely lead to the truth?
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