[Dr. Eckleburg]

I'm excited at the prospect of evangelism reaching people anywhere, because God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

But you don't believe God intends for all men to come to repentence...or at least you don't see it happening in this "post-Christian culture," right?

Which leaves us with either a God with imprecise, overblown, unfulfilled expectations or a God who cannot accomplish what He wants.

A better outlook would be that God accomplishes EVERYTHING He intends. And He intends that this earth reflect His glory by the victory of His Son through the preaching of His word.

"So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." -- Isaiah 55:11

And if the word of God goes out to all the world, then all the world will be the better for it. And all to whom God has given ears to hear and eyes to see will understand and follow Him.

They don't call this a post-Christian culture for nothing.

LOL. Who's "they?"

Maybe that's what "they" want you to believe so "they" can rule the roost without all those pesky Christians telling them what God has to say about things.

[xzins]

Read Peter.

He explains it all.

[.30Carbine]

And all to whom God has given ears to hear and eyes to see will understand and follow Him.

Jesus taught this truth:

"For everyone who asks receives;
he who seeks finds;
and to him who knocks, the door will be opened."
Luke 11:10 (Matthew 7:8)

O indeed! God is the Giver of every good and perfect gift (James 1:17)!
Yet He has established that we ask, seek, knock...that we pray!

This Way, this Great Grace, this privilege to be heard comes through Jesus Christ, the Mediator, and our acting upon the belief that He Is - the Son of God, the Crucified Messiah, the Risen Lord!

I personally can't think of a single confessing Christian that has not prayed what men rightly call The Sinner's Prayer.