Tim Maas Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army

Telling others about Jesus will at some point include discussion of the reason why Jesus was incarnated (that is, to provide salvation for a universally sinful humanity that could not -- and will never be able to -- save itself through its own works or efforts, and that is consigned to eternal separation from God apart from faith in Christ). 

There will always be people who, instead of receiving this as the "good news" that it is intended to be, take offense at being told that they (like all the rest of us) are sinners who cannot save themselves by their own actions, and that they must depend totally on faith in Christ. Sinful human pride -- the same pride that has afflicted humanity ever since first believing the lie that they could be like God (Genesis 3:5) -- does not want to hear that message.

I would say that these contrasting reactions to the gospel are at least part of what Jesus had in mind when He said that He had come to set a man against his father, and a woman against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law (Matthew 10:34-36).

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