• Too Much Like Hell

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  Scripture:  Matthew 5:13-16

  Tags:  Christian Witness

TOO MUCH LIKE HELL

A young American lawyer boasted that he was going West to find some place where there were no churches, no Sunday schools, no Bibles. Before the year was over, he wrote to a classmate, a young minister, begging him to come out where he was and start a Sunday school and preach, and "be sure to bring plenty of Bibles," closing his letter with these words:

"I have become convinced that a place without Christians and Sundays and churches and Bibles is too much like hell for any living man to stay in."

(Source: Echoes. From a sermon by Stephen Wright, Bad Waters, 6/26/2011)