There will be haters and doubters of God and then there will be you proving them wrong!

One of the problems in modern American Christianity is our neglect of telling the whole story of God. We tend to leave the hard truths of the gospel out in order to not turn people off. For example: God is kind, loving, merciful and full of forgiveness. Those are aspects of God - we usually have no problem sharing with unbelievers – it’s easy to say “God loves you and wants to forgive you”.
However, God is also righteous, holy, just, and hates sin. Without understanding that aspect of God’s character, the other (more “attractive”) aspects won’t make any sense. We like to fluff up the Gospel focusing on the “attractive” attributes of God to make our message sound more appealing to the world; but when we do that all we are left with is our message. We are not called to proclaim our message, but God’s message, and many times God’s message is very offensive, politically incorrect, and hard for us to share with people. For some reason we are afraid to talk about God the way God talks about Himself.
Don’t get me wrong – scriptures about God’s love, mercy and forgiveness are amazing and need to be preached. But when it comes to scriptures about God’s utter hatred for sin and His just wrath, we’ll skip over them real quickly as if they’re not important. What if God put those passages (and the countless others like them) in the bible for a reason? What if that’s the way He wanted to reveal Himself to us? What if in our attempt to be “missional” or “loving” or “culturally relevant” what we’re really trying to do is cover up for God?
Remember, the gospel is the message that got John the Baptist beheaded, Jesus crucified, Stephen stoned, and Paul and the Apostles persecuted. The need to be careful that we share the whole truth - A warning of judgment was always accompanied by an explanation of grace and a call to repentance and faith. We have a great God and a powerful message to share – let’s do it with integrity.