A  few and growing number of courageous teachers in our land have arisen against the tide and are indicting the whole realm of the American Church. In short: Run, for your clothes are on fire!!

If this is so, why is the malaise so strong? Even while it is evident that birth pangs are growing closer and closer and intensified, dullness seems to rest upon us. It can be felt in the pews, our handling of life decisions, or our filling hours with occupancy of entertainment.

I have wondered and sought continually for months: if indeed the other side of eternity, separating us by only a thin veneer of death, is crying out to us, why can’t we hear it?

Nothing shakes us or phases us for long: sin, scandals, tumults, storms…

One day an answer came to me! It was the answer of Abraham to the rich man. Like the rich man, we would plead for a visitation from the other world!! Surely that would warn us and turn us totally!

Through the lips of Jesus, Abraham states something incredulous: In the eyes of God we have ENOUGH. “They have Moses and the Prophets: they must respond to them.” (Luke 16: 29). We have the Law and Prophets (and MORE) bound in a book on our coffee table or shelf. It’s there and God knows it is there for us…the obscure passages in Amos, Ezekiel, Isaiah and Revelation – the ones that are hard for us. Because they paint a picture we do not like, we have to strive to them and work at such thoughts. But these are indeed the SHOUT from the other world. And those in that other world wish, oh how they wish, we would open up those words and heed!