The other day, I was bluntly asked, "How can you sleep at night? If you really believe in heaven and hell, how can you live among people who are going to hell and not tell them about Jesus? How can you say you care about them, and yet weeks, months, or even years go by without telling them about what He's done for them?"
It was definitely a convicting question. While Christianity is not a religion of wrath, but rather of love, it does make it clear that everyone who doesn't know God will die and spend eternity in hell. We have not been called to simply be nice and kind and pleasant to other people. In fact, if that is how you choose to show your faith, if all you do is show kindness without ever telling them about Jesus, what you are really doing is saying with a smile, "Go to hell."
Strong statement, isn't it? Which, I suppose, is what prompted that question that was asked of me. Do I, as a Christian, really believe what I am preaching or not? Do I really think that the people with whom I live, work, and play are going to spend an eternity in hell? If so, why do I not say anything? Am I really willing to sit back and watch them die? What do you really believe? And what are you going to do about it??
It was definitely a convicting question. While Christianity is not a religion of wrath, but rather of love, it does make it clear that everyone who doesn't know God will die and spend eternity in hell. We have not been called to simply be nice and kind and pleasant to other people. In fact, if that is how you choose to show your faith, if all you do is show kindness without ever telling them about Jesus, what you are really doing is saying with a smile, "Go to hell."
Strong statement, isn't it? Which, I suppose, is what prompted that question that was asked of me. Do I, as a Christian, really believe what I am preaching or not? Do I really think that the people with whom I live, work, and play are going to spend an eternity in hell? If so, why do I not say anything? Am I really willing to sit back and watch them die? What do you really believe? And what are you going to do about it??
Romans 6:20-23
20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. 21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! 22
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of
God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal
life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 
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