A Sugar Coated Gospel

I’m coming to the conclusion that all people want is a sugar coated gospel. Anything with a sugar coating is bound to taste better. People want the easy stuff, but don’t want to be confronted with the hard passages of truth in God’s Word. Just last night in youth I mentioned 2 Timothy 3:12. It says,

“In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.”

Not a pleasant thought, but it’s in the Word of God. It’s a hard truth and people sitting in churches need to know it. Things are not going to get better in this world. Utopia isn’t around the corner. Trials and tribulations are going to increase in these last days and God’s people need to expect that bad things are going to happen on an ever increasing scale. A little pessimistic you may ask? No, I’m a Bible realist with an eternal optimism.

No more sugar coating. We need those Christians that have been Christians for years with no growth to begin to mature in their faith. It’s time to move past the sugar coated gospel.