Red Letter Day last Sunday I spoke on Jesus, the two thieves and hell
Image via Wikipedia Lloyd-Jones could have been saying this for the 21st Century not the 20th. There really is nothing new under the sun: “All this modern preaching on the fact that God is love is an indication of the same attitude and spirit. We are told today that the old sermons that preached the law and talked about conviction of sin and called people to repentance were all wrong because they were legalistic . . . So it is said that we must return to the message of Jesus . We must get rid of all our theology, our argumentation and doctrine—it is all unnecessary. The business of preaching is to tell people that God is love. It does not matter what they are, or what they have been, or what they have done, or what they may do—God loves them. Nobody will ever be punished. There is no law; so there is no retribution and no hell . . . Dignitaries in the church tell us that what we need is a “religionless Christianity.” One of them has written a book in which he says that if y...