This past Sunday Nathan Young concluded his message with this powerful quotation from Michael Lawrence, Senior Pastor at Hinson Baptist Church. It’s a great reminder of how the atonement enables our evangelism. 

Ultimately the end or purpose of Christ’s sacrifice is that we might once again offer our lives back to God as sacrifices, not as payment for sin but as living sacrifices of praise to his glorious grace. So long as we try to offer these sacrifices as payment for sin, to appease God, or to make him happy, we will fail. But when we faithfully teach ourselves and our churches that God is not angry anymore because Christ has paid the penalty something changes. Now these living sacrifices are not offered in fear, but in love. In one sense they are not sacrifices at all.