The One issue avoided by Evangelicals in America is....

Hell. It is the one issue that many Christians (both evangelicals and non-evangelicals) desperately want to avoid. It has become, for many, THE taboo among Christians.

I believe that our reluctance to deal with the reality of hell is the cause of many of our problems in the American Church

We don't evangelize as Christians. Statistics show that the vast majority of Self professed Evangelicals do not share the Gospel with anyone in their entire lives, and one reason is that we don't talk about hell.

We have produced in this country a large group of shallow Christians who profess Christ but have no idea of what He really did for them on the cross, because we don't talk about hell.

And yet, Hell is an essential part of the Gospel of the Scriptures.

See the Gospel, contrary to popular opinion, is not about making good people better; Rather, it is about Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, coming down to earth and rescuing sinful humanity from Hell.

But we don't like that kind of talk-It's too judgemental, too depressing, too mean-After all, God is Love, right?

Yes, God is love-but He is also Holy and Righteous, and we are NOT. We in America like to think of ourselves as good people; However, the Bible tell us that there is NONE good.

We are NOT good by nature. Everyone one of us has fallen short of the standard of perfection that God has. God cannot allow anyone into His Holy Presence (heaven) unless they are perfect. Since none of us is perfect, then,

WE- ALL OF US-DESERVE TO ROT AND BURN IN HELL FOREVER.

I deserve to die and go to hell for this sins I've committed. Hell would be the just payment for the wrongs I have done, and said, and thought.

You deserve the same thing I do. NOT ONE of us can stand before the holiness of God and say, "I am perfect." We are ALL GUILTY AS SIN before a Great and Powerful God

It is when we realize this that Gospel comes truly alive. The Gospel says that IN SPITE of us-NOT BECAUSE of how good we think we are, but IN SPITE of how evil we truly are without Him- Christ, God-in-the-Flesh, fully man and fully God, took the punishment that we deserve in order that we might have the opportunity to spend eternity in Heaven with the God who created the Universe.

When we finally see who we really are without Christ, our first response should be to fall on our knees and worship the One who took the punishment we certainly deserved.

The reality of Hell MUST also compel us to tell others of the Good news of Jesus. Those without Christ will die and spend an eternity in torment in Hell. We do not wish to see that happen, and the only way to prevent that is through faith in Jesus Christ and His sacrifice on the cross for our sins, "and not for our sins only, but also for the sins of the whole world." (I John 2:2)

The Good News of Jesus Christ is not just forgiveness of sins, it is the only way we have the right to spend eternity with the God who loved us and created us, and we must take this message of grac beyond what we can even imagine to the world.