I was talking with a friend who regularly runs “The Way of the Master” evangelism classes. He said that when the class starts there is always a good turnout, but when people realize that they have to actually go out and speak to the lost, he loses about a third of them. He was grieved that it happened, even though he explained that through the class they would learn to share their faith without fear. If those who deserted the battlefield had stayed, they would have found out something amazing. Imagine you and I are standing beside a swimming pool in which there are large chunks of ice. I soberly say, “Two minutes in that freezing water and you will be dead! I dare you to jump in and do a length.” Hopefully, you would have the good sense not to. However, if your two year-old child fell in and began to drown, how long would you hesitate to dive in and save him? Not for a second. But wouldn’t you be fearful of the freezing water? Of course not. Not for a second. That’s the power of love. So, do you hesitate to enter the freezing waters of evangelism to seek and save the lost? Do you listen to your fears? That’s the gauge to the depth of your love.

Have you ever read about the Church in the Book of Acts, and deliberately compared it to today’s church and its agenda? There is a huge disparity. When the Holy Spirit was given, they didn’t stay for a further time of worship in the Upper Room--they immediately preached the Gospel to the unsaved, as they had been told to (Mark 16:15, etc). Every corner they turned, they reached out to the lost. Perhaps the difference between the modern church and the early Church is that they were “eternity-minded.” That's what happens when someone comes to true repentance and faith in Jesus. He says "Not my will, but Yours be done." The modern church lives for the present. It is concerned with itself and what it can get from God. You just have to watch Christian TV to see that. It is in essence saying, "Not Your will, but mine be done." So few are horrified at the fate of the lost. May God awaken the millions who sleep in such a spurious state within the Church.

<< Hmmm... interesting post. Well, what if the christian is wrong? What if allah is the one true god? Then the christian is just in as much trouble as the atheist. But since these imaginary people don't exist, no one has to worry about any of that anyway :- ) >>

Dear Arizona Atheist, I don’t believe you exist. I don’t believe anyone wrote your post. That may sound stupid, but that’s what the professing atheist does. Let me explain by quoting from a new book I have coming out in three weeks called, How to Know God Exists:

The DNA Factor

Think for a moment if you could ever believe that the book you are holding happened by accident. Here’s the argument: There was nothing. Then paper appeared, and ink fell from nowhere onto the flat paper and shaped itself into perfectly formed letters of the English alphabet. Initially, the letters said something like this: “fgsn&k cn1clxc dumbh cckvkduh vstupidm ncncx.” As you can see, random letters rarely produce words that make sense. But in time, mindless chance formed them into the order of meaningful words with spaces between them. Periods, commas, capitals, italics, quotes, paragraphs, margins, etc., also came into being in the correct placements. The sentences then grouped themselves so that they related to each other, giving them coherence. Page numbers fell in sequence at the right places, and headers, footers, and footnotes appeared from nowhere on the pages, matching the portions of text to which they related. The paper trimmed itself and bound itself into a book. The ink for the cover fell from different directions, being careful not to incorrectly mingle with the other colors, forming itself into the graphics, title, and author name. There are multiple copies of this book, so the book then developed the ability to replicate itself thousands of times over. With this thought in mind, notice that in the following description of DNA, it is likened to a book:

If you think of your genome (all of your chromosomes) as the book that makes you, then the genes are the words that make up the story…The letters that make up the words are called DNA bases, and there are only four of them: adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T). It's hard to believe that an alphabet with only four letters can make something as wonderful and complex as a person![1]

To liken DNA to a book is a gross understatement. The amount of information in the 3 billion base pairs in the DNA in every human cell is equivalent to that in 1,000 books of encyclopedia size.[2] It would take a person typing 60 words per minute, eight hours a day, around 50 years to type the human genome. And if all the DNA in your body’s 100 trillion cells was put end to end, it would reach to the sun (90 million miles away) and back over 600 times.[3]

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[1] Kids Genetics, GlaxoSmithKline http://genetics.gsk.com/kids/dna01.htm.
[2] Denton, Evolution: Theory in Crisis.
[3] “Genome Facts,” Nova Online .

20 year-old Robert A. Hawkins got his wish. He became instantly famous--known for murdering nine people, and then committing suicide at a mall in Nebraska. Once again, experts will profile the killer to try and figure what drove him to do it. Here’s his profile--nice guy, friendly, not violent, was funny, broke up with his girlfriend, was quiet until you got to know him, had bouts of depression, and had lost a job. He sounds like the average American with the usual problems that are faced by millions. So why did he go on a murderous rampage? Here’s the answer--he didn’t fear God. Had he feared God, he wouldn’t have as much as hated another person, let alone kill nine people for no real reason. When life hurts and you want to lash out at this world, if you don’t believe that you have to face a holy God, then why not do it? You are just glorified primal sludge with no purpose for existence, so why not go out with a bang, and take a few with you and at the same time become famous?

As Christians we need to faithfully preach the fear of the Lord, and we can best do that by opening up the Commandments as Jesus did. We must speak of Judgment Day, never hold back from preaching the reality of Hell, and of a God that even sees our thought-life, all from the view of absolute holiness. That will drive sinners to the cross, and that’s where the sin that drives sinners to murder is dealt with in a heartbeat. There, at the foot of a blood-stained cross, God gives us a heart that loves righteousness and loves our neighbor as much as we love ourselves.