The Pizza Illustration

I cannot take credit for this: I learned it from Gabe Graham of The Great News Orlando while we were Miami for an Evangelism Boot Camp on Super Bowl Weekend (no, I did not get to go to the game, but that was okay: Saving souls is much higher on my priority list).

Imagine your favorite pizza, nice and hot, just the way you like it.

Now, I am going to ruin your favorite pizza. (WARNING: DO NOT KEEP READING IF YOU HAVE RECENTLY EATEN OR ARE EATING RIGHT NOW.) <--YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED, SO YOU CAN'T SUE ME!!

Imagine that someone put a large piece of dog feces on your favorite pizza. Would you still eat it?

What if that person only put a small piece on it? Would you still eat it?

What if that person grated some dog feces and just sprinkled it on your favorite pizza? Would you eat it?

What if that person put some dog feces on your favorite pizza, and wiped it off? Would you eat it?

Not if you are in your right mind. Because nothing about that pizza will ever make you ingest dog feces. The dog feces has thoroughly corrupted the entire pizza, and it is good for nothing but to be thrown away.

Now, you may claim to be a good person, but think about this: no matter how good a person you are, if you are corrupted by sin AT ALL, then God cannot let you into Heaven. No sin, whatsoever, will enter Heaven. Period.

And you can go from there into the Good Person Test, etc. That's the pizza illustration!