Preaching the Cross -When and how?

"Who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ." Here are words that should be able to encourage anyone,  and were meant to encourage those to whom Paul was writing.  God will sustain us to the end.  What is he sustaining,  and which end is he talking about? If he had not sustained us,  we would then end up having guilt on that day.  But, because He himself is able to hold up His end of things,  we will be without guilt on that day.  What guilt is it that he is eliminating by sustaining to the end?  All of it.  Why did Paul find it necessary, in one of the first sentences of his letter to Corinth, tell them that God is able to sustain them to the end,  and that they will be without guilt.  If you think about the sin which he later describes, and brings out about the Corinthians,  it is indeed noteworthy that God is going to sustain them and that they will end up being without any guilt on that day.  He is pointing out that God is faithful,  and that He was the one that called them into fellowship with His son, Jesus Christ.

"For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power".  It is also interesting and significant that Paul actually is bringing forth the fact that eloquence can actually be a detriment and negative factor in relationship to people hearing the message that needs to be heard.  He determined to know nothing among them outside of Christ crucified.  It is the cross and the preaching of the cross that is the power of God unto salvation.. This does put in suspicion all "systems" designed to present the gospel in some clever way or in some way that might be described as "eloquent".  The cross is the power, and that is what needs to be preached.  

I have asked God to explain to me how to love people, and more specifically how it can be unloving to preach the gospel.  It just doesn't make sense to me that Christians espouse the view that you can be too forceful about presenting the cross.  It is almost as if we forget that it is a miracle that we believe in the first place.  We almost seem to think that it is up to us, and our right perception of the appropriate place and way to bring up the cross that will determine whether someone believes or not.  I find that hard to reconcile.  If God sees lost people as lost,  and in need of finding,  and He has given us any part in warning and communicating that fact to people,  and it is necessary to bring the message of the cross to people,  how is it possible to warn them too much.  How can one reason that we are being too frantic about warning people about eternal hell forever and ever?  Seriously.  Lord, I ask you here and now,  in the name of the Lord who died for me,  and for every person who believes,  that you explain it to me.  I mean it.  If there is a way that we can be too concerned about it,  or too forceful in warning,  I would like that explained to me in Scripture.  Logically, emotionally, spiritually, it is just hard for me to conceive of a scenario where someone would hold it against me that I was too fervent about telling them about the danger that lies ahead in eternal judgment,  and eternal dwelling places.  People go shopping for houses, and they try to find out everything they can about the home they are considering for purchase.  How angry would they be if they found out, after signing the contract, and moving in to their new home,  that there was something very important that the seller omitted to tell them.  Let's just assume they had termites and had knowledge that the house was basically eaten up and that all the lumber holding up the house was eaten away and would need to be replaced.  Would the buyers think it was okay for the sellers to omit that piece of information?  No, they would be rightfully angry that they had been deceived and that they had a right to know that information.  If we as Christians really believe that there are eternal dwelling places,  and that everyone we see, meet or know will be in one dwelling place or another,  how can we justify being timid or even silent about what we know?  How can we twist things to comfort ourselves that we are somehow right in withholding vital information?  If the situation were reversed,  and we didn't know about heaven and hell and the certainty of judgment,  would we want to know? Would we think people who warned us about it were being too fervent?  Or, would we wonder why they hadn't shouted louder and been more fanatical about communicating the danger that lies ahead?  I really don't understand this, Lord. It has been the most disheartening and frustrating thing I have had to deal with my entire Christian life.  It does really appear that the great majority of Christians, who claim to truly believe that there is a hell and heaven,  have convinced themselves through a variety of means, that it is wrong to preach the cross and the gospel, except in some very specific situations and circumstances.  The end result is that hardly any Christians preach the gospel at all,  but instead look for that special circumstance, and almost look for permission or a sign that it might perhaps be okay to let people know about judgment to come, and the only solution.  I find myself really wondering how You really think and feel about the current state of evangelism in your body.