People often say to me, “What would you do if you met a really modern man on a train and you had just an hour to talk with him about the gospel?” And I’ve said over and over, “I would spend forty-five or fifty minutes on the negative, to really show him his dilemma – to show him that he is more dead than even he thinks he is; that he is not just dead in the twentieth century meaning of dead (not having significance in this life), but that he is morally dead because he is separated from the God who exists. Then I’d take ten or fifteen minutes to preach the gospel. . . I believe that much of our evangelistic and personal work today is not clear simply because we are too anxious to get to the answer without having a man realize the real cause of his sickness, which is true moral guilt (and not just psychological guilt feelings) in the…
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