“The word ‘church’ is also used to refer to a group of people who meet in one specific location for worship and fellowship. In any one of these local congregations there are usually some true believers and some who are not,” writes Hal Lindsey in his book “THERE’S A NEW WORLD COMING”.

THERE ARE USUALLY SOME TRUE BELIEVERS.

Those who are true believers have a personal relationship with the true God.

THERE ARE USUALLY SOME WHO ARE NOT TRUE BELIEVERS.

Those who are not true believers don’t have a personal relationship with the true God.

TRUE BELIEVERS HELPING THOSE WHO ARE NOT TRUE BELIEVERS TO COME INTO A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE TRUE GOD IN THE LOCAL CONGREGATION.

One subject at Bible school was Personal Evangelism (PE) and this is what I learned:

THOSE WHO ARE NOT TRUE BELIEVERS HAVE WRONG HOPES.

1.  They are hoping to be saved by their ‘righteous life’.

How can we recognize those people?

They say that they are doing more good things than bad things.

They also say that they are not big sinners.

They say that they have never done anything really evil.

2.  They are also hoping go be saved by being religious.

What must we tell them? (4 things)

a. Not what we can see from the outside is important. The inside is for God important. First Samuel 16:7; Second Timothy 3:5; Luke 16:15.

b.  In spite of being religious we can get lost, if we don’t really live for God. Titus 1:16.

c. We can even be active in christian work and get lost. Matthew 7:21-23.

d. We must be born again. John 3:3-5; Second Corinthians 5:17.

And until the very end, “IN ANY ONE OF THESE LOCAL CONGREGATIONS THERE ARE USUALLY SOME TRUE BELIEVERS AND SOME WHO ARE NOT.”

“Nowhere in the N.T. is the word “church” used for the building in which any particular Christian community met.” – 20th Century Bible Dictionary