Nuggets from "An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith" by Dave Hunt - Perverting the Gospel

Nuggets from “An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith” by Dave Hunt – Perverting the Gospel

Oswald Chambers warned lest, in our zeal to get people to accept the gospel, we manufacture a gospel acceptable to people and produce “converts” who are not saved. Today’s most popular perversion is the “positive” gospel, which is designed to offend no one with truth. One of our most popular televangelists, for example, has said that it is demeaning to call anyone a sinner and that Christ died to restore human dignity and self-esteem. This televangelist claims to win many to Christ with that seductive message – but such a gospel does not save sinners.

Evangelistic appeals to “come to Christ” are often made for the wrong reasons: in order to be healthy, happy, or successful; to restore a marriage; or to handle stress. Christ died to rescue us from the penalty of sin, not to make us successful. Those who do not admit that they desperately need God’s forgiveness in Christ, and thus do not accept His salvation, are not saved but lost eternally.

Others preach a gospel that is so diluted or perverted that it deceives many into thinking they are saved when in fact they are not. No fraud could be worse, for the consequences are eternal!