Hello,
Most of you have heard of the Hyper Grace movement of the 70s where you want to reduce the Gospel to as few words as possible, as if it would let you tell to as many people as you could before you died. Loving people isn’t like a drive by attack with the Sword of the Word of God . To love people, you need to spend time with them. So its a first failure to think that the Bible even needs to be reduced, if anything, people want to hear about the cool miracles of strange and wonderful things God likes to do. No one wants to hear a super dry,”Give up everything you like doing then read and deny ever having fun again.” We can’t get people to give up sin, only God can do that through Jesus, so that’s one problem of the Hyper Grace minimum words to spread the Gospel, but it gets worse, please follow along.
Think of how some people evangelism with this small message. After their one and done encapsulated messages of,”Follow Jesus to be saved.” they await a response. “No? Well then go to hell, I’ll talk to someone else.” This is very off putting, like you’re the only person who will ever talk to em about Jesus and if you fail, that’s it they go to hell. This messes up the entire pool of fish we’re aiming to be fishing for to be apprehensive about evangelists when we should be aiming to have the fish be more accepting of hearing the message from other fishermen.
Any chess players out there? If I told you only had three moves to play in chess from a starting board? Would you open for a long game? Or go for a win in 2-3 moves that is called fools mate and leaves the board in a worse place if it fails? The Hyper Grace movement aims for the later and if the person is not converted, the next evangelist to stop by has a harder time with the person who was basically told off by the Hyper Grace,”You’re going to hell, bye.” If you view the world as a large place to fish, and you’re not the only fisherman, you can just make the fish more susceptible to a hook from someone else. You play your three moves of chess not to force a win, but to put the board in a better place. We’ll talk about this more in a later article and see/hear video testimonials from people I helped to Jesus on the street lately since online censors the Christians too hard for me to be heard anymore.
Another thing some versions of the Hyper Grace movement get wrong is insincere repentance. It says,”Jesus forgives sins, so we can do as much sin as we want.” That is anti Biblical. Jesus wants us not only to ask forgiveness, but try not to sin again. We’re as Christians to resist sin. If we go around being as bad as we wanna be and we turn off people from being Christians, that’s on us
The Hyper Grace movement is a failure. Before you try and hook the fish, you should give it bait. Give the fish something they’re interested in, relate with their hobbies, or offer to mow their grass, shovel their snow, or help em with other jobs. Everyone leads a busy life and if you serve someone, they have time to listen to you. If you jump out on the sidewalk as someone is struggling with their laundry and tell em about God, you’re doing God a disservice for you could have been opening the door to the laundromat, or paying for their washing machines and such. The greatest of Heaven is the servant of all. Open a door for people, save them time, shoot the breeze when they want. Love them first and then the doors are opened. To just run around finding people to shout,”Follow Jesus or Burn in Hell!” is pretty harassing, though God sees your desire to serve. It’s the fisherman equivalent of taking a large hook and jumping in the water chasing the fish all around;not very effective. How about use some wisdom and serve him a bit better by serving them with work, love and friendship. When you establish relationships with them, they start begging you for the Word of God, why you’re so nice and they respect your religion because you started out by respecting them! I’m going to be doing a series now where I have testimonials of people who follow Jesus because they think I’m super cool and nice to them in a world of hate. I’m just loving my neighbor as Jesus taught, loving others opens many doors. Praise Jesus.