What did you do today? Times can be rough so not everyone went to work but did you? Did you work a full 8 hours or more? If you got up this morning at 6:30 AM then got home from work at 6:30 PM, that’d make an even 12 hour day. Then let’s say between dinner, TV and whatever else you may do in the evening you went to bed at about 10:30 PM to get a full 8 hours of sleep. You were awake then for about 16 hours. What happened in that time span?
Here’s what happened that you may not have realized: Around 38 babies are born in China every minute. Times that by 60 for an hour then by 16 for the time you were awake. That means 36,480 babies were born in China while you were awake. Question: How many of those babies will grow up to hear the gospel? How many will live a full life, have kids, then die and never have a chance to hear the gospel? What are the odds that they will even hear the name of Jesus Christ?
Now that was the births in China, but here are the numbers for the deaths in China. The death rate is about half the birth rate. Nineteen Chinese people die a minute. That means in the time you were awake, 18,240 Chinese people died. How many of those are in hell right now and have never heard one word of the Gospel? In 10 billion years, they will still be in eternal torments that will never end. Did we tell them that Christ died for them?
It is sometimes easy to give numbers and statistics but the fact of the matter is that these numbers have names, faces, family and friends. These are just numbers, they are souls – Parents, grandparents, sons, daughters, cousins. China is 5% Christian and that includes every kind of brand of Christian. The future needs to be changed. We need to get the gospel to China.
Pray ye the Lord of the harvest that He would send forth labourers….
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