Books I am Reading or listening to this year

  • Sun, Stand, Still - A Great Small Group Study
  • Circle Maker are great books that anyone can quickly read. They will change your life!
  • 9 1/2 Principles for Innovative Service

Monday, July 23, 2012

Hard to Go to Hell

Our pastor uses the term "We're making it hard to go to Hell in East Tennessee".  Now I hear that phrase often and have given lip service but never really stop and think about what that means.

Our society has diluted  the concept of Hell and use statements like, "A loving God would never punish His people and send them to a place like Hell".  We analyze so many things to diminish God preparing a place like Hell.  Also we think there will be a last minute opportunity to accept Jesus just before we die.  So to think that a place is being prepared for Satan and his angels has lost its meaning.

Today I heard Bill Weise on "23 minutes in Hell" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBB9YYIZoMg&feature=related  which has me thinking again of the statement our Pastor uses.  Even though this link is 44 minutes long, it is powerful testimony.

What does it take to keep people from Hell?  When you hear this man's experience, it has given a whole new idea on why it is so important to "Make it Hard to Go to Hell from East Tennessee" or any other place in this world.  I get it.

Listen to the entire link and see if there is not someone who you want to live forever in the presence of God and not Satan.  Show them this video and then start a discussion.