WHEN A LIFE is at stake, people respond instinctively to the crisis…

 The fireman hurls himself into a burning building to rescue a frightened boy.
 A mother darts in front of an onrushing automobile to grab a stray child.
 An average swimmer jumps into a rushing stream to grab a drowning stranger.

What is it that prompts such heroic acts? One thing–the sure knowledge of the consequences if they do not attempt the rescue.

THOUGHT: If evangelism is to become natural in the church, we must have a full knowledge of the consequences if we fail to reach out. Ken Hemphill, “Passion for the Lost,” The Antioch Effect, 153

“But others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.” Jude 23

Mike Benson