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Volume 4 · CenteredLesson 37About 23 minutes

Hell and Fear

Has fear of hell ever been the main reason you believed, or were told to?

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The center · Luke 12:32
32“Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

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Many people first met Jesus through a question about fire: "If you died tonight, do you know where you would go?" The message was simple: believe, or burn forever. Jesus did warn about Gehenna, more than anyone else in the Bible. The question is what he said, and to whom.

You may have come to faith afraid, and you may still carry some of that fear. Let's look at this together, and read his hardest words in full, without softening them. You don't need anyone's permission to follow him, inside a church or outside one, and you were never meant to follow him mainly out of terror.

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An add-on
His warnings about Gehenna are real, but the detailed hell of sermons and paintings, and fear as the main reason to follow him, are add-ons that aim his warnings at people he did not aim them at.

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