-4.5 Billion people in the world are without Christ!
-1 Billion people have never heard the Gospel!
What happens when these people die?
Until reading David Platt's book Radical, I had never given this question much thought. Life-changing doesn't even begin to describe what he said. The statistics and stories Platt used beat me down! The way he challenged American Christianity, and of course by using God's word really convicted me like never before. The book was so real and challenging that I got halfway through and started all the way back over just to make sure I understood.
Here it is:
1) In Romans 1 it says that everyone knows God because he has revealed himself since creation.
2) All people reject God and are guilty before God because of our sinful nature! Romans 3.
3) All people are condemned for rejecting God. HERE we come in contact with what happens when people do not know Christ. Some think that they are automatically going to heaven because they have not heard! If this were the case then the worst thing we could do in tell them about Christ, because if we tell them and they don't belive then they go to hell!
4) God has made a way of Salvation for us and that is through Christ! Romans 3.
5) No one makes it to the father except through Christ!
Christ commands us to spread the gospel to all people. If we fail to do so then we are letting billions of people go to hell without even having a chance! The Great Commission is not a calling, but rather a command! Squad, I'm glad that we are coming together to spread the gospel of Christ! No matter what the cost, our reward is so much greater!
