Just finished watching a show on one of the Christian channels on the dish. This evangelist/ preacher was going to college kids, trying to show them their need for a savior. It was done with minimal preaching, mostly one on one with the individual or small group in an interview format.
The absolute ignorance of the average college kid is unbelievable. When he asked for them to name the ten commandments, no one could name them all. Very few knew more than three, some knew none, and some did not even know there were commandments. None of then knew that they were to love God. When asked how many brands of beer they could name though, these same kids easily came up with ten.
He would ask them if they had ever lied, ever lusted, ever fornicated, ever stolen, and every one admitted to doing at least a couple of these things, some admitted to doing them all. Then the interviewer would say, " since you are a liar and a thief, and you have done what God says you must not do, where do you think you will spend eternity?" The answers were either,"I am going to Heaven because God is too loving to send me to Hell for little sins," or the answer was " there is no God, no Hell". No one thought that they would spend eternity in punishment. If there is a God, He is too nice to punish people.
I am reminded of a statistic put out a few years ago by the Southern Baptists. It said that of all the kids that were raised with regular church attendance being part of their life experience, eighty-eight percent of those kids, when they left home, would also leave the church, and never return.
Thank God for the street preachers. May their numbers and their wisdom increase. These kids will never hear Christ preached from a pulpit.
Terry ---------- "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org If you do not want to receive posts from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will be unsubscribed. If you have a friend who wants to join, tell him to send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he will be subscribed.
