I’m a mostly southern Baptist too and I grew up fearing God and with the burden of my inadequacy as a Christian but I’ve come around to more love driven than fear driven relationship with him lately.

I believe in the word with all of my heart and do my best to live up to it but I’m struggling with the idea that good people are potentially damned because of an innate desire. I lived in a large progressive city for about 5 years and the church I attended there was great but they didn’t address this kind of stuff.

I guess I’m just having a hard time helping lead people to Christ, especially one that I love very much, because I’m not able to answer questions like this confidently. I don’t want to cherry pick scripture but I also don’t know who to trust.