“Jesus didn’t come just to die for your sins. He came to teach you how live a full, earthy, gritty, and marvelous life.” Hugh Halter wrote that in his powerful book, “Flesh: Learning to Be Human Like Jesus”. Later in the book, Mr. Halter asks the poignant question, “If someone were to ask you, ‘What is the gospel?’ what would you say? How much of your answer would reflect the afterlife, and how much would reflect this life?”
We Christians have arguably become well accomplished at selling the benefits of Heaven. We can describe the horrors of Hell and then the wonders of Heaven, which should make following Jesus a no-brainer for anyone, right? The problem is that this type of evangelism has little precedent in the teachings of Jesus Himself.
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