Drew Carey on Salvation

I watched The Drew Carey Show this week. It was an interesting program.

In the program Drew's friend Lewis is discovers he is going to hell because he is a bad guy. This revelation causes him to attempt to change the way he lives. He changes everything, in order to be a good guy [and earn his way to heaven].

In the process he does all kinds of crazy good guy things and strange religious activities (including wearing of robes) and eventually God strikes him with lightening.

Drew Carey imparts his wisdom by telling Lewis that you can't be perfect and earn your way to heaven "...all you gotta do is show up and try."

While the first part is true and the second part sounds good to the average American. It is totally false. You can not simply try to be good, because we all fail. Rom 3.10-18,23 - everyone has sinned. And there are consequenses to our sin. Rom 6.23 - the wages of sin is death. However, the Good News is that Jesus died for our sins (Rom 5.8). When we are in Christ there is no condemnation (Rom 8.1) for us.

Once we are in Christ then we are forgiven and we "show up and try."

Make sure you are IN CHRIST!

If you have questions about this contact me.