Imperishable Inheritance

I had a dis­cus­sion with one of the staff mem­bers of CCC, and he expressed sor­row that I wouldn’t use them while evan­ge­liz­ing. I will explain what I see wrong in the Four Spir­i­tual Laws (please note that I am not ostri­ciz­ing those that decide to use them; I’m only express­ing why I do not). First, the laws…

1. God LOVES you, and offers a won­der­ful PLAN for your life.
2. Man is SINFUL and SEPARATED from God. There­fore, he can­not know and expe­ri­ence God’s love and plan for his life.
3. Jesus Christ is God’s ONLY pro­vi­sion for Man’s sin. Through Him you can know and expe­ri­ence God’s love and plan for your life.
4. We must indi­vid­u­ally RECEIVE Jesus Christ as Sav­ior and Lord; then we can know and expe­ri­ence God’s love and plan for our lives.

“God’s love and plan for your life?”

Tell me…what is this sup­pose to mean? None of the laws specif­i­cally address exactly what this is refer­ring to (another cause of ambi­gu­ity of these ‘laws’). What is God’s plan for all of our lives?

Declare his glory among the nations, his mar­velous works among all the peo­ples!
Psalms 96:3

But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a cho­sen instru­ment of mine to carry my name before the Gen­tiles and kings and the chil­dren of Israel. For I will show him how much he must suf­fer for the sake of my name.“
Acts 9:15–16

There is no empha­sis on God’s glory through­out any of the “laws.” Noth­ing on His mercy, grace, or wrath; but instead they only fur­ther the evan­gel­i­cal empha­sis on solely love and no wrath. Maybe Bill Bright should read “Sin­ners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Edwards.

The Law / Resurrection?

The most impor­tant thing we can pos­si­bly men­tion is Christ’s res­ur­rec­tion; with­out it, we have no Gospel. Also, the “laws” don’t explain what being sin­ful really envelopes. No men­tion of God’s law anywhere.

In short, what­ever does spread the Gospel is fan­tas­tic; but we must look crit­i­cally at how we are pre­sent­ing the Gospel. So then, what is the Gospel?

The Gospel of Jesus Christ

Now I would remind you, broth­ers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you–unless you believed in vain. For I deliv­ered to you as of first impor­tance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accor­dance with the Scrip­tures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accor­dance with the Scrip­tures,
1 Corinthi­ans 15:1–4

God gave man His Law to fol­low, but we have come short. Out of His mercy and love He sent his Son Jesus Christ; Jesus was born of a vir­gin birth, lived a sin­less life, and was cru­ci­fied in order so that we may have a rela­tion­ship with God again. God poured out his wrath on Jesus, so that we would escape that tor­ment. After his cru­ci­fix­ion, He rose three days later to prove He had con­quered death.

If you believe Jesus Christ did these things: then you will escape God’s wrath, and you will enjoy an eter­nal rela­tion­ship with The Cre­ator of the universe.