Just how important is Salvation?  I'm asking this as a serious question.  I'm sure any one of us as Christians would quickly state "Oh, it's very important!"  In fact, many of us would state "Salvation is  the difference between spending an eterneity with our Glorious Father and His Son in Heaven and an eternity separated from them in Hell."  We would say, "Yes, it's THAT important!"  Besides being an eternal life or death matter, Salvation is also something which brings many of us peace, understanding, identity, and many other wonderful things. If Salvation is so important and such a hugely, immense life and soul changing event,  why don't we evangelize like it is that serious of a matter? 

I've heard of countless stories in the news or from people I personally know about situations where people put their earthly lives on the line saving somebody else.  I'm sure all of you have heard similar stories.  You know, stories like a man running into a building on fire to save a young child. Or, the woman who jumped into a swift river to save the drowning boy.  We've all heard stories like this.  Many of us have children and have maybe experienced situations where we've saved our own children from being hurt at the possible risk of injuring ourselves.  Right?  Situations like this probably happen every day around the world.  Why are we so willing to risk possible physcial harm or death to save somebody else from physical harm, but often won't even lift a finger to warn somebody about the eternal state of their soul?  Think about that for a moment.  Isn't it true?  We'll risk injury or death for a temporary existence but won't risk getting out of our comfort zone for a permanent one.  So, again, just how important is Salvation?

 For those of us who are parents or grandparents, don't we yell at the top of our voices to halt our kids from continueing to cross that busy street after they failed to look both ways?  In fact, wouldn't you even risk injuring the arm of your child or even a stranger's child if you had to forcibly yank them out of the way of an uncoming semi truck?  Would you warn the stanger attempting to sit next to you in the theater that the chair they were about to sit in was seriously damaged? Yes, you would more than likely do all of these things.  Why then, do we avoid talking to our neighbor who we know is a non-believer?  Why do we sit and say nothing at work when a co-worker during a conversation about religion at lunch break states "I am a good person so I don't need to believe everything about God and the Bible in order to get to heaven".  If we truly believe Salvation to be of the utmost importance, why are we so often unwilling to risk the simplest of things?  In fact, isn't it true that Salvation is the ultimate life or death matter?  And, shouldn't we risk ALL so that somebody might hear of it?

 Blessings,

 Aaron