While both of my parents are good people, neither of them has accepted Christ, and they are skeptical about organized religion. I feel they’re running out of time, and I know if I don't tell them the truth, no one will. Can you suggest how I could best approach my unsaved parents about Christ in a loving but convicting manner?
In this five minute audio clip, Randy talks about how his dad was more closed to the gospel than anyone he'd ever known.
In this minute long audio clip, Randy talks about secular professors teaching moral relavitism to their students.
In this audio clip from an interview with Hank Hanegraaff, Randy Alcorn answers the question, "What was your experience of taverns compared to churches when you were growing up?"
Full length interview of Randy Alcorn with "Bible Answer Man" Hank Hanegraaff. This interview focuses on The Grace and Truth Paradox. (2003)
This video is available on DVD.Randy Alcorn talks about The Grace and Truth Paradox with Pastor Mark Becton of Grove Avenue Baptist Church. Filmed in 2009.
What distinguished the first Christians from the world around them? It certainly wasn’t their buildings—they had none. It wasn’t their programs—they had none. It wasn’t their political power—they had none.
Read Acts 2 and Acts 4 and you see a radical difference in the church, a profound transformation in the way people treated each other. Christians were different in the way they behaved, in the way they lived. They were characterized by visible acts of love and generosity and joyous sacrifice for the good of others.
It is very hard to communicate on this subject with both grace and truth. We are concerned for a person’s soul, and not wanting to be harsh, but it is also critical not to back off from the truth that any sex outside of the biblical marriage between a man and woman is wrong. I oppose gay marriage, but not only as a matter of righteousness, but also because it is deadly to those involved in it. It is always deadly for all of us to choose the path of sin.
The Christian life is not based on avoiding the truth but on hearing and submitting to it. The greatest kindness we can offer each other is the truth.
A friend in our church came to me about his nonchristian, theologically liberal sister, a Princeton grad. He had proposed to her they each pick a book and ask the other to read it, and then discuss both books. She picked A New Kind of Christian by Brian McLaren. A revealing choice. While McLaren takes the Bible more seriously than she does, as a fairly extreme theological liberal she nonetheless respects his departure from “modernism” (which essentially means evangelicalism, an ironic turn of the phrase since fundamentalists, the parents of evangelicals, fought “modernism,” which meant theological liberalism).
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