A TRAGEDY THAT I CAN PERSONALLY RELATE TO ...
( the story below was found on facebook )
" Enough time has passed that I guess I can now talk about something that has been gnawing at me for months. I heard a testimony from a pastor who said there was an unsaved man dying in a nursing home nearby in Alabama. This lost man asked for a preacher to come lead him to salvation.
They called some pastors, but it was during Christmas time, and they were busy and would not come talk to this lost man who was on his deathbed. Five or six different pastors said no, they had other things to do. Then they call this pastor friend that I'm talking about. He hopped in his car to go lead this man to salvation. But they called him before he was even halfway there and said the man had died. He died before anyone could pray with him.
So, what I struggle with is the idea that people only think a preacher can lead a man to salvation.
Was there not one Christian in that nursing home who knew how to tell someone about Jesus?
I posted a couple of times how only 17% of churchgoers even know what the Great Commission is, according to a Barna research survey.
But 77% of churchgoers believe that tithing is biblical.
It’s pretty obvious that the Great Commission isn't as important to the church as tithing is.
Of course I'm just venting here but it's kind of difficult for me to put together that no one in several counties could lead that person to the Lord. The church has to do better."
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Robin Stephen Aldrich relates: In the late 1960's , I was a teenage student at Cliff College, Derbyshire, England. ( evangelical Methodist layman's-college )and a new Christian from a non-Christian home. During college break, Mom asked me to make a day visit to my grandfather who was in a distant seniors' home, following strokes ( my grandmother was dead and Mom had no siblings or a car ). Grandfather was a retired 'unbelieving' farmer in his nineties. I'd recently witnessed to him. He was sitting in a quiet lounge with many elderly men around him: No TV or radio on and no nursing staff in sight ! He recognized me and immediately asked me to pray with him for Salvation. I led him in prayer, step by step and as I did so, the other elderly men around us repeated the phrases !!! Only the Lord knew the exact circumdsatnces and timing. Grandfather soon after, died on the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon.
( the story below was found on facebook )
" Enough time has passed that I guess I can now talk about something that has been gnawing at me for months. I heard a testimony from a pastor who said there was an unsaved man dying in a nursing home nearby in Alabama. This lost man asked for a preacher to come lead him to salvation.
They called some pastors, but it was during Christmas time, and they were busy and would not come talk to this lost man who was on his deathbed. Five or six different pastors said no, they had other things to do. Then they call this pastor friend that I'm talking about. He hopped in his car to go lead this man to salvation. But they called him before he was even halfway there and said the man had died. He died before anyone could pray with him.
So, what I struggle with is the idea that people only think a preacher can lead a man to salvation.
Was there not one Christian in that nursing home who knew how to tell someone about Jesus?
I posted a couple of times how only 17% of churchgoers even know what the Great Commission is, according to a Barna research survey.
But 77% of churchgoers believe that tithing is biblical.
It’s pretty obvious that the Great Commission isn't as important to the church as tithing is.
Of course I'm just venting here but it's kind of difficult for me to put together that no one in several counties could lead that person to the Lord. The church has to do better."
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Robin Stephen Aldrich relates: In the late 1960's , I was a teenage student at Cliff College, Derbyshire, England. ( evangelical Methodist layman's-college )and a new Christian from a non-Christian home. During college break, Mom asked me to make a day visit to my grandfather who was in a distant seniors' home, following strokes ( my grandmother was dead and Mom had no siblings or a car ). Grandfather was a retired 'unbelieving' farmer in his nineties. I'd recently witnessed to him. He was sitting in a quiet lounge with many elderly men around him: No TV or radio on and no nursing staff in sight ! He recognized me and immediately asked me to pray with him for Salvation. I led him in prayer, step by step and as I did so, the other elderly men around us repeated the phrases !!! Only the Lord knew the exact circumdsatnces and timing. Grandfather soon after, died on the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon.
A TRAGEDY THAT I CAN PERSONALLY RELATE TO ...
( the story below was found on facebook )
" Enough time has passed that I guess I can now talk about something that has been gnawing at me for months. I heard a testimony from a pastor who said there was an unsaved man dying in a nursing home nearby in Alabama. This lost man asked for a preacher to come lead him to salvation.
They called some pastors, but it was during Christmas time, and they were busy and would not come talk to this lost man who was on his deathbed. Five or six different pastors said no, they had other things to do. Then they call this pastor friend that I'm talking about. He hopped in his car to go lead this man to salvation. But they called him before he was even halfway there and said the man had died. He died before anyone could pray with him.
So, what I struggle with is the idea that people only think a preacher can lead a man to salvation.
Was there not one Christian in that nursing home who knew how to tell someone about Jesus?
I posted a couple of times how only 17% of churchgoers even know what the Great Commission is, according to a Barna research survey.
But 77% of churchgoers believe that tithing is biblical.
It’s pretty obvious that the Great Commission isn't as important to the church as tithing is.
Of course I'm just venting here but it's kind of difficult for me to put together that no one in several counties could lead that person to the Lord. The church has to do better."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Robin Stephen Aldrich relates: In the late 1960's , I was a teenage student at Cliff College, Derbyshire, England. ( evangelical Methodist layman's-college )and a new Christian from a non-Christian home. During college break, Mom asked me to make a day visit to my grandfather who was in a distant seniors' home, following strokes ( my grandmother was dead and Mom had no siblings or a car ). Grandfather was a retired 'unbelieving' farmer in his nineties. I'd recently witnessed to him. He was sitting in a quiet lounge with many elderly men around him: No TV or radio on and no nursing staff in sight ! He recognized me and immediately asked me to pray with him for Salvation. I led him in prayer, step by step and as I did so, the other elderly men around us repeated the phrases !!! Only the Lord knew the exact circumdsatnces and timing. Grandfather soon after, died on the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon.
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