Randy Alcorn

ابدیت کے بارے ایک نقطہ نظر رکھنا کئ طرح سے ایک حقیقی مسیح زندگی گزارنے کی کنجی ہے۔ کلام مقدس 2 کرنتھیوں 18:4 میں کہتا ہے "جس حال میں کہ ہم دیکھی ہُوئی چِیزوں پر نہیں بلکہ اندیکھی چِیزوں پر نظر کرتے ہیں کیونکہ دیکھی ہُوئی چِیزیں چند روزہ ہیں مگر اندیکھی چِیزیں ابدی ہیں۔ اگر ہم اس حقیقت کو مان لیں تو یہ ہمارے سوچنے اور زندگی گذارنے کے انداز کو ہمیشہ کے لیے بدل دے گی۔

What we need in our churches today are fewer actors and more sold-out followers of Jesus—converted people living lives centered on Jesus, the King of kings. And the good news is, there truly are many such people in our churches. Our goal should be to cultivate more and more of them. 

For too long we have reduced and distorted the gospel to the snatching of souls from Earth to a distant and intangible realm suitable for angels, not people. Yet the Bible shows that in His unfolding drama of redemption, God is at work to reclaim not just our souls, but also our bodies, and not just our bodies, but also the earth.

There are people who reason, If I give generously, I’ll have to worry about where the money will come from to replace what I’ve given. But Jesus actually says the opposite. 

I received a letter from a reader, who mentioned four nonnegotiables of the faith and asked for advice how to live those out. Here was my response.

Josef Tson, once the best-known pastor in Romania, openly preached the gospel at a time when the Christian faith had become virtually illegal. Josef said, “During the time I was expecting to be crushed by the Romanian secret police interrogators, God became more real to me than ever before or after in my life.”

Eight years ago, Nanci and I did a question and answer time with the group of young moms at our church. One of the questions we answered was, “What do you like most about Jesus?” I remember this question and Nanci’s answer well.

Several months ago, Nanci read this to me from her Charles Spurgeon devotional. I found it very touching, and applicable to the subject of children and teaching them to follow Christ.

I’ve read many accounts of experiences in which people who do not know Christ claim to have gone to Heaven, or its outskirts, and were reassured by a “being of light” that all is well with them. I’m convinced that though some have had real supernatural experiences, the one who reassured them was not Jesus.