Who Is the Worst of Sinners?

Who is the last person in the world that you think will ever become a Christian?

Is it someone we hear about on the news? Someone like Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, which kidnapped over two hundred schoolgirls in 2014 and forced many of them to marry Boko Haram soldiers? Or atheist author Sam Harris who has written that his aim is “to demolish the intellectual and moral pretensions of Christianity in its most committed forms”?

Or perhaps the last person you think will ever become a Christian is you. Maybe you have lingering doubts about the truth claims of the Bible. Maybe your own life makes you think you could never come to saving faith. Perhaps there is a sin in your past that, deep down, you think excludes you from grace and mercy. Whatever it may be, you feel unforgivable; to become a Christian seems like an exercise in hypocrisy...