Thursday, August 12, 2010

Why Do We Do Mission Work?

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While traveling with the AFLC Student Missions team we stopped at a Hindu temple.  It was one of the most visited temples in the country.  We were told that people stand in line 12 hours for a 12 second look at the idol.

DSC00749 (Small) The temple site has a state fair atmosphere with thousands of people and many vendors selling everything from religious trinkets, and jewelry to food.

We realized that these people do not know the Savior who is the only way to heaven.

As we traveled on toward our home base we passed a man who had been hit by a car.  Even though it was dark we could see him flailing in his blood on the highway.  The ambulance was only a few hundred feet from reaching him so we didn’t stop.  It was a poignant reminder that one day all will step over the threshold from this world into the next.  Those thousands of people at the temple will have to face the true God.  Am I doing all that I can to change their eternal destiny?