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Originally Posted by Cindy
I lived most of my childhood in fear. Because of the way evangelists preached about hell. I could never be good enough to not go to hell. Probably more than a few of us heard the stories about people having a chance to get saved, but rejected God instead. Then they died in a horrible car accident on their way home from church. That is not in any way a great way to view God.
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Sadly, there was (and still is) a sort of competition among preachers over who could be the "toughest" about any particular subject. NA Urshan even remarked about this in a message he preached at GC back in the late 1970s where he observed the "fads" that "our preachers" go through. One such fad was the "Tough Preacher."
For whatever reason, this problem was of such a concern that Bro. Urshan preached the same message repeatedly around the country - including in our church when he visited there.