PREACHING THE RIGHT WAY

‘Repent for the end is near; Jesus is coming very soon and if you continue in your sin, you will end up regretting your life. Is there anyone who makes womanizing his special hobby and his hormones always scream out of control when anything in skirt passes by, such person is eternally damned and i am telling you to brace up for hell fire because that is where you will eventually end up. You that can exhaust a brewery and enjoy drinking yourself to a state of stupor but do not stop at that, but have also become a close companion of the white stick that craves for the red flame, turning yourself into a human chimney; i bet you will never escape the sulphuric stench that fills the satanic abode. Also you that indulge in one kind of sin or the other, remember Sodom and Gomorrah and the judgment of God that befell them, i promise you will never escape such judgment which will even be worse and greater than the rejected sinful cities’.

I am sure most of us would have never missed this type of preaching which condemns a sinner to the barest, reeling out the consequences of sins and the harsh judgment that awaits any sinner. People have heard preaching that condemns and brings fear to the heart of the hearer. Guilt always accompany this type of preaching. It leaves anyone that hears this message in a state of helplessness.

However, there are some who hear this type of preaching and hiss at the preacher. For them, nobody has the right to judge and condemn their way of life and poke nose into their private affair. They are of the firm opinion nobody has the right to tell them the way to live their life and do not see any good in the gospel that is supposed to bring good news, but rather loads of condemnation.

The way the gospel is preached by many Christians from time past up until now most times speak of condemnation. Condemnation brings guilt, fear and total rejection of the gospel by most hearers. Gospel means good news, but when the preaching of the gospel is riddled with condemnation, then it is no longer the good news the gospel is supposed to be.

Preaching the gospel to people should be done in a way to reveal God’s love. Gospel should be preached with great emphasis on God’s love. It should be pointed out to people how much God loves the world that He gave out His best for us when we did not deserve it. God loves a sinner, but hates sin.

Let us imagine a young man cut down in his prime. The killer apprehended, charged to court, convicted of his crime and sentenced to death. The father of the deceased now comes forward and offers another of his son to be killed in place of the killer and wants the government to free the killer. Definitely, people will think the man’s head needs to be examined by a psychiatrist for giving out another of his son to be killed for a criminal that deserves to die for his heinous sin. That is just the way God gave us His son to die for us when we were undeserving.

Condemnation does not lead to repentance, rather the goodness of God leads to repentance (Romans 2:4).