What's Missing in The Bridge to Life

I don’t know if, when you were younger if you remember the bridge to life diagram. People on one side, God on the other sin separating us. It looks something like this. It’ll always say “sin” down here when I was a kid, and it always said “man." Not human, not person. Just man. I remember thinking, “what about women? I guess they don’t need God. Doesn’t matter, I’m not on of them. So I’ll move on." I was a kid. Basically selfish. I just wanted to get to Heaven when I died. This was presented to me and of course this chasm of sin could be bridged only by Jesus. Of course it became still a bit of a problem to me because I thought how am I supposed to climb over that? I am not that athletic. Even as a kid, I thought, “I don’t know if that’s a bigger help or not maybe I could just but I can’t climb. I don’t know. So, other than that, we would also add an arrow across the top heading in that direction. We would say Jesus becomes the bridge that gets us to God. Basically, I think the diagram is helpful. But I would change a couple things. First of all I’d shave down the top of the cross to give fat kids hope and then the other thing I would do is say I would change the direction of the arrow. Jesus is really about God pursuing us. Coming to us, it’s not just a way of getting us to Heaven it’s God coming to us and saying ”I value you. I’m on your side. I want to pursue you." This is the message of the Gospel.