Are We Proclaiming a Hell We Don’t Deserve

[Garland-Green]

and a Christ We Do?
APRIL 9, 2018 | Peter Gurry

I taught twice on the doctrine of hell recently and both times it ended in tears—mine.

I remember the second time vividly. At the end of the class, an older woman who had walked with God for many years approached me with a somber face. She had a question about her mother and as she spoke, she began to cry. She wanted to know whether her mother was in hell.

What could I say? I told her what most Christians say in such moments. I said that we never know what happens in the final moments of a person’s life, that I didn’t know where her mother was.

That’s true. I didn’t know. None of us does.

Then I told her something else: “But this is what I do know. I know that if she is in hell, it is just. And I know God would be just if he sent you and me there, too. Because that’s what our sin deserves.” With a gravity I won’t forget, she nodded slowly and we hugged, now both crying at the weight of it all.

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