All my evangelical life, I’d had a problem with one particular aspect of the way in which I was taught to present the gospel. Somewhere in the course of evangelizing an unbeliever, I was supposed to make the point that God demands that a penalty be paid for sin. His Holiness requires satisfaction for the great injury our human sinfulness has inflicted upon Him. Of course, what we are to see as glorious in all this is the fact that God Himself mercifully paid the penalty He demanded, through the sacrifice