Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Campus Shooting: A Rescuer's Regret - #8026

Thursday, June 5, 2008

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I walked into my hotel room and turned on my television, and there was the news of another one of those horrible campus shootings. That’s really an all too-familiar scene. There were the students sobbing, there was a swarm of law enforcement people all over the place, and, you know, people carrying out stretchers with students on them.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft, and I heard later a personal story that came out that really sobered me from that shooting. There was an EMS First Responder who was a Christian, and he was in the ambulance with this wounded student. And he said, “I had this strong sense that I needed to tell her about Jesus, and I really felt like I should and I didn’t.” Well, she died at the hospital, and this man’s heart is broken. Man, I heard that and I said, “Man, that could be me.” That could maybe be you, too. It probably has been. We’ve had opportunities to tell someone about Jesus and we didn’t. And the Bible makes it clear we really are responsible for those lost people around us. It says, “When I say to a wicked man, ‘You will surely die’ and you do not warn him or speak out to dissuade him from his evil ways, in order to save his life, that wicked man will die for his sin and I will hold you accountable for his blood” (Ezekiel 3:18 ).

Man, all the people around us are terminal and we don’t know when they’re going to have their last chance at Jesus or at heaven. What stops me is my fear, and I figured out my fears are all about what might happen to me if I told them. I’ve got to be more afraid of what will happen to them if I don’t. See, there’s no greater way to have a life that matters than to help someone be in heaven with you someday.

I hope you’ll go to our website. It’s all about that. It’s called alifethatmatters.org, because God put you here to have a life that matters.

This radio program references: Ezekiel 3:18