The Agenda

Much is said about sharing our faith, but not much is said about clearly presenting the gospel. Too many of us have been tricked into peddling a "Jesus can make you feel better" pill. In other words, Jesus is here to make you feel better about yourself, without really addressing the fact that without Christ we are lost, undone and hopeless. We are now taught to make friends with them, but to try to avoid anything that might scare them off. I am not saying that we should approach them in the manner of a rabid dog, but we should make friends with them in such a way that we remain honest with them. The "I'm OK, your OK" ideology doesn't help anybody; and in fact, it may do eternal harm. The fact is that none of us are OK. We are all sinners, and we all need God's mercy to keep us from His judgement.

Let's get something straight, you need to have an agenda. Throw politically correct out the window. Politically correct means one thing, "you can be anything you want to be, so long as it is not Christian." The Muslims have an agenda, the Godless ACLU has an agenda and Godless judges and legislators have an agenda; why shouldn't we as Christians have an agenda? I'll tell you why: it is a trick of the Devil to make us lay down our arms, so that we can not share a message that convicts of sin, and thereby showing the lost their need of a Savior. We are to be the ones influencing the ones around us, not the other way around. This is the agenda: befriend them, speak in plain terms that are apt to convict of sin and tell them about the love of God demonstrated in Christ. We are to be ambassadors of Christ, as if God were making His appeal through us for the sinner to be reconciled to Him. II Corinthians 5:17-21