Our task is not to help people see God favorably but to see him accurately. God has the power to touch hearts and to draw people his love and grace while they fully affirm his holiness and justice...God has appointed us to faithfully deliver his message, not to compose and edit it. He has already written the message - it's called the Bible. Who are we to spin it and tame it , or presume to be more loving than Jesus, who with outrageous love took upon himself the horrific penalty from our sin? God's position is already taken; we need not apply. We do not own the Christian faith. It isn't ours to revise. God's Word wasn't entrusted to us so that we could give it away piece-meal, leaving the next generation with the leftovers. If we go on decade after decade parceling out fragments of the faith, what will be left? When we abandon truths Christians once died for, will we no longer have truths worth living for?
- Randy Alcorn
From the Forward to 'God Wins: Heaven, Hell, and Why the Good News is Better than Love Wins' - by Mark Galli
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