The Gospel costs nothing, but it demands everything.
It's all or nothing ...
This powerful booklet, excerpted from All In tells us that the Gospel
costs nothing, but demands everything. If Jesus is not Lord of all, He
is not Lord at all. It's all or nothing. It's now or never. It's time to
ante up and go all in with God.
No one has ever sacrificed anything for God. If you always get back more
than you gave up, have you sacrificed anything at all? The eternal
reward always outweighs the temporal sacrifice. At the end of the day,
our greatest regret will be whatever we didn't give back to God. What we
didn't push back across the table to Him. Eternity will reveal that
holding out is losing out.
Batterson writes, "For many years, I thought I was following Jesus. I
wasn't. I had invited Jesus to follow me. I call it inverted
Christianity. And it's a subtle form of selfishness that masquerades as
spirituality. That's when I sold out and bought in. When did we start
believing that the gospel is an insurance plan? It's a daring plan.
Jesus did not die just to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous."