Who Actually Needs to be Accepted?

“The point of preaching is never to make Christ acceptable. But in a man-centered era, this is automatically thought to be the task of the preacher — how to make God acceptable to man. The problem which confronts us in the Bible is actually quite different. The real problem is one of sin, and how to make sinful man acceptable to a holy God. With this as the true problem, the solution, one which once made the holy angels stop their mouths, was the Incarnation, Cross, and Resurrection. That is how sinners are made acceptable to God” (Mother Kirk, p. 76).