But that unfortunately doesn’t stop Christian pastors and authors from trying to be seen as loving and compassionate by the world. If they try to hold to biblical truth simultaneously, they send mixed messages to say the least. It’s contradictory to say out of one side of your mouth, “homosexuality/divorce/abortion/etc. is wrong” and out of the other side, “Come as you are, stay as you are. God will love and forgive you, and you don’t need to change because God accepts you just as you are.”

Okay, they rarely are that blatant, but that is how what they do say is understood by those whose bible is the popular sayings of God’s people.

Don’t get me wrong now. It doesn’t matter what we used to be when we turn from sin, whatever it is, and allow Christ’s grace to change and transform us back into the individuals He created us to be. And when we stumble and fall down, His grace is there to pick us back up. Nor should we treat one sinner differently than we would any other sinner.

But that’s not good enough for the habitually unrepentant post-modernist. The world doesn’t want the compassion and mercy Christ offers and that Christians should be offering. It wants told it can live however it pleases without any consequences. We cannot be faithful to Christ and “love” habitually unrepentant post-modernists as they desire. We cannot please God and the world both and, despite the popular “Christian” belief today, we are not supposed to please or be loved by the world, either.

But Lamb didn’t go so far over that edge to render the book useless; not at all. The references that concerned me were brief and the overall emphasis of the book will nonetheless point those with ears to hear down the road home, or into more intimate fellowship with the Lord if already a believer.