The Christian Message is Urgent: But Why????

On Christian television, radio and other media, I am constantly hearing the message- something like, "Jesus is coming. Get ready!" This is in fact a Biblical message, and the urgency they felt 2,000 years ago when sharing this same "get ready" message is not much different from what we feel today! And yes, He is coming back! What a glorious day!. But the greater need for the Christian message, most pointedly, the message of salvation through Jesus Christ, is a message for this very day; it is one that must be declared now! The salvation of Jesus Christ brings hope, light and life into people's lives right where they are, in their despair and in their flawed and myopic self-diagnosis and ineffective self-medication.

Above all of this, the book of Hebrews says, basically: A person dies once, and then faces judgment. The odds have it that we, and people we know and love, will go before Jesus comes. Paul said to be absent from thje body is to be present with the Lord. Other Scripture implies that the dead wait for the return of the Lord, who will raise them up to their eternal reward. Whatever the mystery of this, it is only in our mortal lifetime that we have the opportunity to accept Christ's salvatoin, and to share Christ's salvation!!! This is urgent!!! 

Finally, those not of the faith and those who contend against the faith, will take people away from the truth. They ask people to consider other "truth," to "imagine" realities different from what the Bible says. And whether intentionally or not, people often imagine themselves straight to Hell.  Jesus said the way that leads to life is narrow, and few find it. Helping people find that path, getting them out of the world's philosophical and ideological traps, so they don't miss Heaven, is urgent!