Let it never be said that I do this blog as a way of promoting the idea that, "By golly, Jesus is really cool cuz you can still play with trains and models and stuff."
My model work is an added blessing from my Father in Heaven and my right of entry into your home to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ and His revealed Word as found in the Scriptures. May God open my eyes to the first moment even the slightest shadow of this hobby comes between me and Him. I'll toss it out into the street just as I did so many years ago and never look back.
Evangelism: A Cheap Salvation
But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness and handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.---2 Corinthians 4:2
Here again is seen the glaring discrepancy between Biblical Christianity and that of present-day evangelicals, particularly in the United States....
To make converts here we are forced to play down the difficulties and play up the peace of mind and worldly success enjoyed by those who accept Christ. We must assure our hearers that Christianity is now a proper and respectable thing and that Christ has become quite popular with political bigwigs, well-to-do business tycoons and the Hollywood swimming pool set. Thus assured, hell-deserving sinners are coming in droves to "accept" Christ for what they can get out of Him; and though one now and again may drop a tear as proof of his sincerity, it is hard to escape the conclusion that most of them are stooping to patronize the Lord of glory much as a young couple might fawn on a boresome but rich old uncle in order to be mentioned in his will later on.---A.W. Tozer, Born After Midnight, 17.
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