So let me do the first one here. If limited atonement, unfortunate as that term is, is true, does that make phrases like Jesus died for your sins, excuse me, and Jesus died in your place in evangelism wrong.

Does that give a false foundation of faith?

Some reform people are much more vigilant over this language than I tend to be.

I'm always asking, what do you mean by it?

So that I haven't been picky in your language or my language,

though I'm more picky about mine now than I used to be, I suppose,

if I heard you say that to somebody,

I wouldn't say,

don't ever say that.

I would ask you,

what did you mean when you said that to that person?

And if you said, I just meant that if they believe him, his death counts for them. I say, okay, that's true.

But here's what I would encourage you to think through your language. Here's what, in evangelism,

what do we offer to people? And I think a good way

to think is we offer them Christ and all that Christ did, like a gift. If they reject the

gift, they don't have all that he accomplished and all that he did and is. But you give

him as a totality. I'm offering you Christ. He's willing to be yours. Embrace him, receive him,

trust him, treasure him, all of him and all that he did.

And I think we have a better gift to offer if we say he effectively canceled the sins of his people,

remove the wrath of God from the sins of his people, provide righteousness for his

imperfect people, secure eternal life for his people, and if you would have him, then that

and he is yours.

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