Most people don’t think they need their sins forgiven
Most people think that they are not as bad as Adolf Hitler, they’re not a serial murderer, they’re not corrupt like the Gupta’s and they’re generally nice people, so they really don’t need their sins forgiven. They don’t understand why Christians keep going on and on about the forgiveness of sin.
Let me share an illustration that I heard recently.*
I was greatly challenged at our Gospel DNA National Ministry Conference with Richard Coekin.
Richard emphasised many things, but mostly the need for church planting and church rejuvenation.
Richard compared the lack of church planting to the tragedy surrounding the Titanic’s sinking.
The luxury steamship RMS Titanic sank in the early hours of April 15, 1912, off the coast of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic after sideswiping an iceberg during its maiden voyage. Of the 2,240 passengers and crew on board, more than 1,500 lost their lives in the disaster.
Several factors made the tragedy so much worse than it could have been.