It is rumored that the Oregon shooter asked people what their religion was and if they replied "Christian" he killed them. If they answered differently he either wounded them or didn't shoot them at all.
Herein lies a dilemma. If you consider yourself a Christian and someone points a gun at your head and asks what your religion is and you deny being a Christian in order to save your life, will Christ deny you? But what if you answer you are a Christian and you really aren't, what then.
I know the likelihood of you, me, or any one else being in that situation is very remote but it did happen to those college students overseas about a year or so ago, it did happen in Colorado at that high school and it is believed to have happened in the recent shooting in Oregon. Those people had no idea it would ever occur to them.
There are thousands of people murdered in the USA every year. I have two friends that have had children murdered and back in 2000 when I was living in Greensboro, NC I was acquainted with all the people murdered in that city that year but two. How many people die in automobile accidents? Add to those who die suddenly of heart attacks, industrial accidents, sports injuries, or some freakish method that one would never dream of, and you have a lot of people who die each year that had no idea when they got out of bed that day it would be their last on earth.
80% of Americans claim they are Christian, 50% of Americans belong to a church, and only about half of those attend church at all. Many people think as long as their name is on a church roll somewhere, or they have been baptized, or they acknowledge that Jesus was a real person they are a Christian. Are you sure you are One?
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