Pondering over Daryl Stout to STEVE ASHER 21 Sep 2005

SA>Exactly, but people find it hard to accept salvation as a free
  >and unmerited gift of God, and seek to "earn" their way into
  >heaven with good works, law-keeping etc. Like today's spammers
  >and scammers, religion offers a variety of trinkets - indulgences,
  >plastic keys to heaven, rosarys, worry beads.... :(

 DS>   Agreed. One of the churches I used to attend, the choir director
 DS> there had a neat lapel pin...two question marks. Being curious, I
 DS> asked. 

 DS>   He asked two questions (hence the lapel pin design), as follows: 

 DS> 1) If you were to die in the next 5 minutes, would you know, beyond
 DS> the shadow of a doubt, that Heaven would be your home??

 DS> 2) If you were standing before God Almighty, and He asked you to
 DS> give Him one reason to let you into His Heaven, what would you tell
 DS> him?? 

 DS>   My answers would be "Yes"...and "Because Of What
Jesus Christ did
 DS> for me on Calvary". It says in the Scripture that "He shall wipe
 DS> away all tears from our eyes"...but, when I meet Him, I'm going to
 DS> ask for a good cry first...as I can't understand why He would
 DS> accept someone as worthless as me.

In my case, I can't understand why He would accept someone as worthless
as me, when I spent much of my life in open rejection of Him, and was
reaping the consequences. 11 September 2001 is described as "the day
that changed the World", but 9 September 1984 was the day that changed
my life.

Cheers, Steve..

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