Don’t we have to start here?

Here at the Sinner’s Pulpit our glaring mantra is “get em to Jesus”. So the question is why?  Why not any of the other religious figures?  Most will say: Don’t they all lead to God?  No.  If that were the case, it would be humanity deciding how to reach God. (see “what difference does it make” at Sinners Pulpit. com). We see this in all the religions – man attempting to reach God. From the Tower of Babel, to the cults we have today. So why Jesus?

He is God…become man.  

 I can’t tell you how this simple statement incites people; professed Christians and atheists alike. They all seem to think it goes… a little to far. 

C.S. Lewis in his book Mere Christianity writes the following: “I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him [Jesus Christ]: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with a man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that option open to us. He did not intend to” (reference Mere Christianity)

How many times do we hear this in the pulpit or anywhere else? Jesus is explained as one who is loving and kind and if you feed the homeless and stop your sinning, you are reflecting Him and you are saved.  “What would Jesus do” is the cliché Christians have come to know as the gospel. IT’S NOT!  The Gospel for salvation is that God the Son took on human flesh to die for the sins of the world reconciling mankind. He was buried and on the third day arose from the dead and was seen by five hundred people. He doesn’t promise smooth sailing, just a safe landing. 

1 Corinthians 15:1-8 KJV

[1] Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; [2] By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. [3] For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; [4] And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: [5] And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: [6] After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. [7] After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. [8] And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.

Jesus is God in the flesh! If He’s not, He’s just another religious figure. 

Don’t we have to start there in our attempt to “get em to Jesus”

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