Modern evangelicalism begins with bad news. That in itself should clue you in that something is wrong here. Like this tract, the message of the church, especially from modern evangelical circles, begins with bad news, not good...Well, at least the tract is consistent. If your theology is decisional rather than relational at the beginning, it should remain decisional throughout. Who wants personal relationships anyway, not when you can have the comfort and warmth of legal, decisional individualism instead?...OK, let me get this straight...According to this tract, the only thing standing between me and eternal punishment is whether or not I can stop sinning and then believe completely without a doubt that I have convinced Jesus in a very sincere prayer and/or religious ceremony to stand between me and the blood-rage of a rule-driven G-O-D? How should I word the prayer? Jesus, please save me from your Dad. Amen?
Let me personalize this:
1. God's initial plan for Bert is to burn him forever because he's a dirty sinner.
2. If Bert doesn't improve his morals dramatically, and if Bert doesn't pray sincerely enough, God will burn Bert as planned.
3. But if Bert cleans up his act and convinces Jesus of the sincerity of his I-wanna-get-saved prayer, then Jesus will try to stop G-O-D from burning Bert.
If you love laws, rules, verdicts, sentencing, punishment, and no loving relationships whatsoever, you're going to love this tract.Excerpted from Bert Gary's blog: The Conversation 
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