Auburn has one of the best Christian subcultures in the country. So, yes I am going to grow in my faith more than I have in a long time. At church on Sunday the college minister was talking and he said something that stung like a bazillion bee stings all at once. It was like a slap in the face. He said, "We spend too much time on facebook when there are people all around us that are going to hell. Jesus didn't die on the cross for you to have a great Christian subculture here at Auburn. He died for the lost souls. These people are going to hell and it doesn't even concern you." It broke my heart to a billion pieces when I realized that I was all about mission work, and serving the Lord… but I turned a blind eye to my surrounding area. There are roughly 9,000 Christians at Auburn. That's an incredible number, but there are 20,000 students that aren't saved. That should break our hearts. Hell is a place I wouldn't wish on my worst of enemies. It is a dark, fiery pit of anger and hatred. It is a terrible way to spend an eternity separated from the one that loves you more than anything in the world. God loves us more than anything in the entire world, but you know what? God loves sinners and the lost more than anything in the world too. So, we should be telling them that. We have something to fight for. Our faith is something worth fighting for. We have got to stop being afraid of the gospel. It is the power of the Lord and the salvation to all who believe! (Romans 1:16) People will believe, but how can they believe what they've never heard or been told. How can it not break your heart that there are PEOPLE walking around with no hope, because they don't know any better? They don't know about God's amazing love for us, and the joy that he gives to us. It breaks God's heart that there are people that are going to spend an eternity in hell AND it breaks his heart that we won't talk about it and that we shy away from telling them about our faith. If we have faith in God, then what are we so afraid of!? Jesus paid MUCH too high of a price for us to decide who is capable of believing in him. That is all for now. Just think about all of those unreached people and believe that God can and will save them. It's a winning battle; we already know the ending of the story. We know that He's going to win, so that should be motivation!
God Bless!
Maggie
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