A Gospel for Immortals

A Gospel for Immortals

As I have worked with so many, some close to Jesus others far off and those from both sides whom seem redemption is still a question mark , I try to be mindful of what CS Lewis says. Mindful that the person who seems to be just short of a nightmare today is in fact an eternal being. And there are those who will one day be beautiful angelic beings glorified in Christ Jesus. I should treat them as though I see them that way now and share the gospel to all as if they lived amongst my nightmares.
This week, please share the gospel with someone. Don’t tell me that’s not your job. Don’t tell me that’s the role of a pastor. Don’t show up to church and give me a pep talk before I preach because you think your friends salvation hangs in the balance of what I say. Don’t throw that responsibility solely on a pastor’s shoulders brother.
Go entertain angels yourself! Go find the demon possessed, prodigals, Pharisees, slaves, addicted, the lost and tell them of the cross and Jesus. Stop holding on to the treasure for yourself and cease being a cross hoarder and mountebank peddling the ambivalence of a mute gospel as you lead those around you not into glory, but an eternal nightmare. I know that is not your intention. Love these immortals with the greatest love you can, the gospel. How do we do that?

1. If you don’t know how to share the gospel ask me and I will help you. 

2. If you don’t know someone who doesn’t know Christ, change your circles of influence because they are out there. 

3. Stop just inviting someone to church. Having a dinner with a friend is great, but having them for dinner to share the gospel then celebrate their salvation over dessert is even better.

4. Be mindful of these words of CS Lewis:

“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which,if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.”

CS Lewis, The Weight of Glory