This post is pointless. Or maybe it isn't

Do you ever mentally prepare yourself for a tough situation?

For example, what would you say if you were to conduct a funeral for someone you don't like? Or conduct a funeral for a non-believer?

Do these thoughts even help? Probably not.

I'm thinking these situations because I struggle with speaking the truth, always worrying how people would respond. Have you ever felt awkward saying the truth? Especially the gospel and talks about hell and where people would go after they die.

It's not an option to not talk about these things, neither is it good to say it with a condescending attitude.

It is good to love people and not interact with them with a hidden agenda to share the gospel. Sharing the gospel is done because I love someone.

Perhaps love is the issue. Fear has to do with punishment, but perfect love casts out fear. The times when I feel awkward and struggle with speaking the truth is because I'm trying to perform. Ah, but performing has to do with faithlessness and not believing in the finished work of Christ for my sins and short-comings.

Will God ever punish someone for whom Christ was punished already? No absolutely not. I need to stand firm in this truth, otherwise God would be grieved.

Christianity is not morality

Christianity is not about being moral, and being a Christian is not about being a good person. Churches point out people's sins and short coming and then tell them to change, but don't connect their need to Christ. It's like telling cancerous folks to stop growing tumours.

We have rules to obey but the reason why we obey is not to be good or to change ourselves. But because of love for and from God.

Voddie Baucham had an good example regarding pre-marital sex, morality would say that sex before marriage was wrong, and the parent would say you gotta wait till your married son cause that's the right thing to do, but Christians do not have sex before marriage cause Christ would not join himself with an harlot. It is because of Christ's love for his bride the church that men and women abstain from sexual immorality.

Paul has a good mentality when he went to the Corinthians resolving to know nothing but Jesus Christ and him crucified. The gospel is very rich and it is the power of God unto salvation for those who believe.

Morality brings shame and judgement, Christ brings life.