
Might I be so bold as to say, "The Gospel was never intended to be “politically correct!’” I know this goes against the cultural motto that says, "At all costs keep everyone happy.” We must have a God-sized burden that is large enough, big enough and passionate enough that we are willing to share the Gospel without compromise. Frankly, I am growing more concerned with being BC (i.e. Biblically correct, not Bobby Conway) than PC (politically or socially correct).
Paul the apostle modeled a BC passion through his life and writings. He warned us that the Gospel wouldn’t be PC. In fact, he said, "…the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God" (1 Corinthians 1:18). You see God never intended for us to preach a clever Gospel, rather He wants us to teach and preach the correct Gospel and that Gospel is "folly to those who are perishing." In fact, it's a biblical crime to make the Gospel say something God never intended it to. When we as a Christian culture try overly hard to make the Gospel PC we can fall into several traps:
• We begin to compromise God’s Word, by picking and choosing what we like and treating God’s Word like a buffet to be picked at verses an entire meal to be digested.
• We begin relying on our own creativity verses the Spirit of God to work in and through us.
• We begin worrying more about what people think, rather than what God thinks.
Therefore, let us avoid the traps of being PC and let’s be BC. Yes, let us ALWAYS speak the truth in love, but for God’s fame-sake let us speak the Gospel truth, the whole Gospel truth and nothing but the Gospel truth, while trusting in God’s Spirit to lead those to the cross whom He is drawing.
Speaking the Gospel truth with you for His fames-sake,
Bobby
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