Hell, we reason, just doesn't sound like a good God. Especially when we've redefined goodness. Some preachers won't preach hell — not because they don't believe in it, but because they find it impolite and untoward. It is the disagreeable part about God, the part to obscure. And in obscuring the bad news it is no wonder so many churches in the West have forgotten the good. It makes less sense. Man's chief problem, they assume, is lack of success, scarcity of happiness; therefore, our message ought to be 7 Steps to a Victorious Whatever. And thus we offer shiny new laws that only increase the trespass (Romans 5:20). But Jesus was not skittish about preaching hell. He knew the stakes couldn't be higher. Author, Pastor, and Professor Jared Wilson is back with us to talk about what many of us don't want to talk about.

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