Easy As A-B-C?
Posted By Aaron Marcelli on January 25, 2012
While walking through the halls at work the other day I saw a pamphlet on top of a newspaper stand that said “It’s easy as ABC.” I realized the pamphlet was a gospel tract intended to catch the attention of a passerby and explain the gospel of Jesus Christ to anyone who read it.
The idea of the tract got me thinking. Are we really attracting people to the gospel if our lead message is that it’s easy? I understand we live in an age where simplicity sells, but being simple and being easy are two different things. And when you look into it deeper, the gospel is neither.
In a way, we are disrespecting our beliefs as well as the intelligence of others in trying to persuade them to Christianity ‘because it’s easy.’ Should a person’s choice of religion not be more meaningful, personal, and thought-out than to think they are just going to choose whichever one is easiest? I don’t hear anyone say “I’m a Republican/Democrat because it’s easier.” When you ask someone what their job is, I doubt they tell you and then explain, “Because it was easier than anything else.” So why would people be drawn to a religion that claims to be easy, and in doing so make itself appear shallow?
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