You can’t scare people to love God.
Heaven is not a place for those who are afraid of hell; it is a place for those who love God.
You can scare people into coming to your church, you can scare people into trying to be good, you can scare people into giving money, you can even scare them into walking down an aisle and praying a certain prayer, you can even scare them into moral acts of goodness; but you cannot scare people into loving God. You just can’t do it – this is a matter of the heart.
Even if you could scare people into a resemblance of religion, they would not be true worshipers, because their fear of God—which is a good thing—would not be shaped by their love for God.
They would not be attracted to God so much as repulsed by hell. This is not true worship because true worship is not based on choosing the lesser of the two fears, but sincere love of God flowing from the heart.
¬ Nuggets extracted from Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler¬
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