Lately I've been seeing a lot of news stories where Christians are being attacked for attempting to deliver the truth. The attackers most often attack the message as being hate speech and stating that Christians are supposed to be "loving and Inclusive". (as if it's up to them to define what we should be)
They might have a point on the loving part. We are supposed to love one another and we are even taught to love our enemies but that has ZERO to do with salvation. We do that because we are commanded to but no such offer on our part will cover their sins. Even with the command to love we are also commanded to tell them the truth even if that truth upsets them. Then they say we aren't loving them because we upset them.
The inclusive part is just flat out wrong. God is many things but inclusive is not a word I would use to describe him. While the free gift of salvation is open to everyone and he would prefer we all take it, you miss this free ticket you're going to hell, that's not inclusive at all, Matthew 7:14 tells us that narrow is the gate that leads to life and few will find it, the 22nd verse tells us of the future when many will claim to know the lord and will be turned away. Not very inclusive. So where does this inclusive idea come from?
Thoughts?
They might have a point on the loving part. We are supposed to love one another and we are even taught to love our enemies but that has ZERO to do with salvation. We do that because we are commanded to but no such offer on our part will cover their sins. Even with the command to love we are also commanded to tell them the truth even if that truth upsets them. Then they say we aren't loving them because we upset them.
The inclusive part is just flat out wrong. God is many things but inclusive is not a word I would use to describe him. While the free gift of salvation is open to everyone and he would prefer we all take it, you miss this free ticket you're going to hell, that's not inclusive at all, Matthew 7:14 tells us that narrow is the gate that leads to life and few will find it, the 22nd verse tells us of the future when many will claim to know the lord and will be turned away. Not very inclusive. So where does this inclusive idea come from?
Thoughts?