Spiritual Search and Rescue

Few people have the compulsion to run into a burning building. Those who do, we call heroes.

God is looking for heroes because, let’s face it, this earth is a burning building, and people are going to hell every day. Meanwhile, we cower in the shadows (what if I get hurt?), ignore the screams (I just don’t know any non-Christians), or pass the buck (there are missionaries for that) on the mess that is this world and the fallen people in it.

But God isn’t afraid of this mess we’ve made for ourselves. He’s not afraid of YOUR mess. He has saved you from chaos, destruction, and death.  Determine right now to run to Jesus with your messes instead of running away from Him in shame or fear.

When you no longer run from the Lord, but to Him with your mess, you learn to not run from the devil and the messes of this world. That’s where good overcomes evil, and the Body of Christ starts to take on hell with a water pistol!

One of the church’s biggest mistakes has been to vilify the unsaved as wanton sinners who love darkness and hate light. This is not the truth! The Bible says God doesn’t want anyone to perish!

God sees the unsaved for what they are – prisoners of war. They are POWs in the cosmic battle of Good vs. Evil, Jesus vs. Satan, Heaven vs. hell. We don’t leave POWs to die in chains. We plan and execute a search and rescue mission to free them!

“If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost? And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that didn’t wander away! In the same way, it is not my heavenly Father’s will that even one of these little ones should perish.” Matthew 18:12-14