I have always been amazed at how hard it is to talk to someone about Jesus, and honestly been surprised how confusing it sounded when people tried to explain how to do it at Awana training events or other such events. As I was reading “crazy love” by Francis Chan it struck me that we have made it way more complicated then Jesus ever intended, and the sad part is we have changed the message to something we can handle, The Salvation message is just a little to difficult for us.
In the gospels, Jesus doesn’t ask us to “pray a prayer” or “trust in him” in some strange figurative way. He wants us to drop everything, follow him wholeheartedly, giving him every ounce of ourselves, trust our life completely in His hands(think a second about that). When he says “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” in Matthew 22:37 it does not have some figurative meaning, He means what He said. When Jesus ask for followers he is not even interested in someone who is going to say they trust in him yet not show it with their life. We should not complicate the message, we should tell people what they are getting into, it is a scary, weird thing but far more amazing than what we have made salvation to be.