In a pluralistic, multicultural, relativistic shrinking world like ours, this will be harder and harder and harder to believe because they are not just in Africa and Asia; they’re right next door: Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and Jewish people.
You know them at work, they are your friends and you want them to be!
And when they ask you: “So... you are saying if I don’t embrace your Jesus you think I am going to go to Hell?” What are you gonna say right there? “Well it is kind of complex complex and there are many disagreements in the church. There are lot of scholars and lot of opinions...”
Blah, blah, blah!
We got out of that last week, right? We are done with that! We are done with that! We are real!
With tears rolling down our faces: “I don’t want to believe that about you. I want you with me. I am just a beggar. I have nothing. I’m nothing. Jesus came into the world to save everybody. He wants Samaritans and Muslims and Jews and Hindus and Buddhists and every race and ethnicity and socio-economic, he wants us he is reaching out. I am talking to you right now, I want you in Heaven with me.” Go there!
Get into no argument. Go there! Plead.
So that they see, this is not an argument. This is not: “Look, which mountain?” This is not about mountains. This is about Christ, God’s Son, came on a rescue mission to every religion. This is why Paul and Jesus and Peter all laid their lives down to reach the nations, the religions.
All missions is going today to places that don’t want you to come. You say: “Well if they don’t want us to come we shouldn’t go.” Baloney! There wasn’t a city on the planet that wanted Paul to come which is why he spent half his life in jail! Beaten with stripes 5 times, with rods 3 times, shipwrecked over and over, he went into synagogue after synagogue where they drove him out.
You don’t go where you’re wanted, you go where you’re needed!
You die if you have to, in order to show who He is...
- John Piper
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