Last Sunday, I preached at our church from the theme, “Living the Dream.” I told the congregation how our mission to effectively reach the thousands of non- believers in our town can be possible. I told them about the early Christians in the book of Acts when the church had been growing tremendously everyday. I told them about three things that may be necessary if we are to “live the dream.” One of these is a challenge for the church to have an effective evangelistic outreach as the early believers have done.

I remember how a friend once told me a tragic story about his cousin who died without knowing Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior. It was a very sad experience. I almost cried. He got shot and split into eternity hopeless and forever lost into the fiery darkness of hell.

My friend said he tried everything to share Christ’s love to his cousin before he died but his efforts were futile. He refused to believe the message of salvation and that cost him everything including his soul.

What a tragedy, we may say. But it is true. It was a story that is being repeated over and over again.

It’s been said that 232, 876 people die everyday around the world. It is hard to imagine how many of these precious souls breathe their last cubic centimeters of fresh air and then went straight to eternal punishment and condemnation in hell.

The world is home to over 6 billion people. More than 60% of these (the statistics can never fully be trusted, it’s not an exact science) do not have a personal encounter with the Savior. What are Christians doing? There is a greater tragedy that goes on whenever a person professing to be a child of God keeps mum about his faith.

Would you care to tell me where are those whom God has commissioned to do the job of reaching this dying world back to Him?

Time is running out. Christians nowadays are only one generation away from extinction. If we will not act now more and more people will die hopeless and lost in an eternity in hell.

The world is in need of our service. The world is in need of us- the people who have experienced the reality of a life-changing experience with God.

The gospel is not meant to be kept secret. It doesn’t belong to X- Files. It has to be shouted from the mountain tops so that all people of all races, religions, cultures and languages may know there is someone who can transform them into the best person they can ever become.

It is time for all true Christians to rise up and bring the gospel of truth to everyone who is in need of life that can only come from God. It is time for every professing child of the King to stand up and be counted as one who will be willing to give all and do all for the sake of touching a lost and needy world with the message of God’s love in Christ.

The world is waiting and the time is now. Let us blow the trumpet of God’s salvation in the planet. Let us be found in the ranks of those who break the deafening tragedy of silence by proclaiming God’s undying love for the spiritual bums of the world today.