GOSPEL-INDIFFERENCE
There is
something essentially wrong with a man who calls himself a Christian and who
can listen to a truly evangelistic sermon without coming under conviction
again, without feeling something of his own unworthiness, and rejoicing when he
hears the Gospel remedy being presented.
Preachers and Preaching, Zondervan,
1971, p. 150.
If you do get
lost, some of you will have to wade through your mother's tears and leap over
your father's prayers and your minister's entreaties. You will have to force a
passage through the warnings of godly people and the examples of pious
relatives. Why this effort to destroy your own souls?
C.H. Spurgeon
Oh, what
would the damned in hell give for a sermon, could they but listen once more! They
would consent, if it were possible, to bear ten thousand years of hell's
torments, if they might but once more have the Word presented to them! If I had
a congregation such as that would be, of men who have tasted the wrath of God,
of men who know what an awful thing it is to fall into the hands of an angry
God, how would they lean forward to catch every
word.
C.H. Spurgeon
The
gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.
Carl F.H. Henry
All around us
we see Christians and churches relaxing their grasp on the gospel, fumbling it,
and in danger of letting it drop from their hands altogether.
John Stott
Guard the Gospel, Intervarsity Press, 1973,
p. 22.
Why do men
not accept the gospel? How can they refuse the tender overtures of the gracious
Son of God? Why do they even take offense at the cross? Let us consider an
analogy. An etiquette book is a very valuable accessory. It is useful on many
important occasions. A good one costs considerable money. Who would not be glad
to have one, if it were given him? You wouldn't? Why wouldn't you be glad to be
given such a book? Because it would imply you needed it! That is the reason
proud sinners do not come to Christ. Their coming would imply they needed Him.
They are too proud and self-righteous in their natural state to admit that!
John H. Gerstner
Theology for Everyman, Moody, 1965, Chapter 6.