Last night at ReFuel our praise team, Diversity, joined us and led a special worship service.
At one point, Brad (the praise team leader) said something that stuck with me. He was talking about sharing Jesus and said something like, "Do we reach out to people not so that they won't go to hell, but so that they won't miss out on heaven?"
I had never thought of it in that way before. Do we think about heaven at all? How amazing it will be to be in an unimaginable paradise with Jesus forever?
Sure, we may warn people about hell, and that is very real. But do we understand that they are also missing out on heaven?
I'm challenged by this...
"Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father's house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going."
Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. " John 14:1-6 (NIV)
Amen, we do know the way and it is up to us to show others.
