In his book Death in the City, Francis Schaeffer put forward a different approach. He put it like this: ‘There is a time, and ours is such a time, when a negative message is needed before anything positive can begin. There must first be the message of judgement, the tearing down. There are times when we cannot expect a constructive revolution if we begin by over-emphasising the positive message… Unless [our friend] understands what is wrong, he will not be ready to listen to and understand the positive. I believe that much of our evangelistic and personal work is not clear simply because we are too anxious to get to the answer without having a man realise the real cause of his sickness, which is true moral guilt (and not just psychological guilt feelings) in the presence of God’.