An Appeal
You have heard it all before… Christians are hypocritical, racist, bigoted, immoral, judgmental, unkind, etc. The list could go on and on. May I be the first to tell you that everything you have heard is absolutely correct! Christians are all of that and a whole lot more! Every believer has it within their old heart to be the most hateful person imaginable. Notice the expression I just used—within their old heart. Every single individual is born into this world with an old heart that is fractured and unregenerate. People are capable of doing much good, on the one hand, and great evil, on the other. The lie is that if you only do good, and repress all of your evil tendencies, you will polish up your old heart and make it acceptable to God. This couldn’t be any further from the truth. The Gospel of Jesus Christ tells us something entirely different. Let me divulge: Every good deed I perform springs from a deep, often unseen, corrupt ...