A Voice from the Past: Keeping the Issue Clear in Evangelism

September 1, 1992 in Grace in Focus Articles

By Lewis Sperry Chafer

The Word of God makes no appeal to the unsaved for a betterment of life. There is but one issue in this dispensation between God and the unregenerate man, and that is neither character nor conduct; it is the personal appeal of the Gospel of the grace of God. Until the unsaved receive Christ, who is God’s gift in grace, no other issue can be raised. Men may moralize among themselves, and establish their self-governments on principles of right conduct; but God is never presented in the unfoldings of grace as seeking to reform sinners. Every word regarding the quality of life is reserved for those who are already rightly related to Him on the greater issues of salvation.

Excerpted from Grace (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1969), p. 84.

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