8924	Forums / Main Forum / Cheap Grace?	on: June 21, 2006, 10:03:41 PM
Quote As coincidence would have it, I'm listening to Kirk Cameron preach on this very thing. It's a little long, but is well worth it for those of you who don't believe Acts 17:30-31, which, at the moment, appears to be all of you. I agree that we need to have repentance as a prerequisite. Now what we need to do is to explain the message to a person and it entails a different approach to each individual and with a different emphasis of these truths in relation to the persons disposition and whether they are acknowledging they are sinners. I dont believe the focus is on the words we say but on the kind of relationship and the praying we do for those who are unsaved in our world. The clinical approach as a system for conviction of sin is a wrong focus. God does the saving in-spite of how cute our message is. We are to be in love with God so much that when the message is given there is a spiritual renewal effect in the air. We are to follow the Holy Spirit in our communication with the unsaved and give them what they need as well as calling for a change in the life. There is a history of this kinda lawyer type message, that is explaining the gospel in a sorta dry, doctrinal focus on the way we present the message so that we can confront a person with their sin and get an effect from them. We are to be in front of those who are not. We are to have such a heated passion for the things of God that there is a supernatural effect in who we are around others. This can only be accomplished in much meditation and prayer.