The summer is just flying by!  I’ve been so busy with Christian service camp, coaching, and preparations for our great Kids Week that I just realized the summer is rapidly getting away.  It seems like yesterday I was planning what was going to happen with the church, our youth group, and my basketball team from school when school got out.  Now it’s time to start planning for the coming school year and our church programming when that new season arrives.

 The way the time is getting away makes me think of the words of the Old Testament prophet, Jeremiah, in Jeremiah 8.20, “The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we are not saved.”  Personally, I rejoice in being saved through my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  However, as time flies by it makes me realize that there are ever so many lost people for which their time on earth is going by like one big blur.

 This message is going to be short and to the point, if you don’t yet know Jesus as your Savior, you need Him.  You need Him NOW!  You just don’t know how much time you have remaining.  In Acts 17. 30-31 the Apostle Paul says, “In the time past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.  For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed.  He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.”  Of course, this refers to Jesus and the second coming.  Be sure you don’t get caught unprepared.

 Jesus has died on the cross and risen again to give you everything you need in order to be saved.  Through Him you can have eternal life.  Through Him you don’t have to worry about the rapid approach of the end of your life.  What joy to be prepared, to be ready, to be saved!

 Nothing in life is more important than knowing you are in Christ. If you are not yet in Him, you need to obey Jesus as your Lord and Savior.  This initial salvation response starts with faith in Jesus. (John 3.16)  To result in salvation, then, our faith must lead us to repent from sin (Acts 2.38), confess (acknowledge) our faith in Jesus (Matthew 10.32), be baptized (immersed) into Christ for the forgiveness of sins and to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2.38; Romans 6.4), and remain faithful to Christ (I Corinthians 15.58).  In this way, you can be ready.

 If we can assist you in completing your obedience to the Gospel, visit or contact us at Licking Christian Church.  If you do not live in our community, we will be glad to try to help connect you with a congregation near you.