Beginning with Christ [antikvár]

CHAPTER 1 MUST A MAN BE CONVERTED? Dear Friend, The subject that you brought up is one that is well worthwhile, so I'll gladly go into it. You write that in personal conversations and also in meetings you have often been told that you must be converted, but that you don't feel any need of this. You are absorbed in your studies and in your work. You have a good home and the best friends. You are hoping to have a good position soon and to see something of the world. You are quite satisfied with your circumstances and, honestly, you find this constant repetition that you must be converted to be most tiresome - you are fed up with it. I can well understand this. There are people who are constantly minding other people's business, giving good advice all day long, or telling others of their faults. It's exasperating to have to hear this over and over again, especially when you think there's a chance they may be right. And, to be sure, this is very important: Are they right or wrong? Must you be converted, or is this not so necessary? If it were only a trifling matter, then you could probably get by even if later you were proven wrong. You would know better the next time. But conversion deals with the question of where you will spend eternity. This is surely important enough that you want to be certain about it. Have you ever seriously thought about what eternity is? I fully agree that we will never really comprehend it until we are there. Yet it's worthwhile just to think about it once, even to get a little bit of an impression of it. I once read an ancient legend about a very intelligent boy.