is the gospel good news
I was recently at a youth conference where one of the speakers said that people are just waiting for others to tell them about Jesus, people are just waiting for us to get up the nerve and tell them about Jesus, but we are ashamed or afraid to speak out and so these people and others like them will perish and it will be our fault (they didn’t say that last part, but that’s clearly what is implied). And what does this invoke in our students, guilt. And we have a long history of Jesus using guilt to woo people and invite them into relationship with him.
If all these people are waiting for us to tell them about Jesus, why don’t they wear a sign or a graphic tee that says as much. They don’t wear a sign, because many of them aren’t in fact waiting for us to tell them about Jesus, most are doing just fine without him. But we do have a biblical call to share the good news, that much is clear. But I believe the call to share the good news has to be good news.