Jesus Is Not Part Of My Future

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C.S. Lewis : “Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live forever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live forever.” (Mere Christianity ); John Piper : “You exist forever. You and God are both in the universe to stay—either as friends on His terms, or enemies. Which it will be is proven in this life. And this life is a vapor. Two seconds, and we will be gone.” (Life is a Vapor ); Dave Chilcoat : “Someday, unless God intervenes, I will be captive in my own body. Someday this body of mine will stop working altogether. Is it scary to be dying? Absolutely! To die is frightening. With all my heart I would like this to go away. But I am okay. My life in heaven is assured. Through God’s power, my spirit is doing well, even though my body is not. It is well with my soul.” (No One Tells A Dying Guy To Shut Up); Dave Chilcoat : “When you know you have no earthly hope of getting out alive, you begin to see things from God’s perspective. Why is it that we are all dying and yet somehow we never really think about it? Before my diagnosis, I was intellectually aware I was going to die, but there was no immediacy to my situation and, therefore, no urgency to wholeheartedly follow God and His plan for me. Once a physician looked me in the face and told me I am dying, I became aware that God was not kidding. There is nothing else as important as my relationship with Him and my need to be totally His.” (No One Tells A Dying Guy To Shut Up); Dave Chilcoat : “I just wish I had understood how to live this way before I got sick.” (No One Tells A Dying Guy To Shut Up); Billy Graham : “I think one of the first things I would do would be to get a small group of eight or ten or twelve men around me that would meet a few hours a week and pay the price. It would cost them something in time and effort. I would share with them everything I have, over a period of years. Then I would actually have twelve ministers among the laymen who in turn could take eight or ten or twelve more and teach them. Christ, I think, set the pattern. He spent most of his time with twelve men. He didn’t spend it with a great crowd. In fact, every time he had a great crowd it seems to me that there weren’t too many results. The great results, it seems to me, came in his personal interview and in the time he spent with the twelve.&rdquoMark Batterson : “You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. If our treasure isn’t in it, then our heart isn’t in it.” (ALL IN); Jim Elliot : “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.” ();