Amidst this unwarranted pandemic and political unrest, what hope does the gospel bring?

The ‘Clickbait’ To Heaven

It was in 2020 that I lost 2 of my aunts in a year. One of them died of cancer, and the other died of Covid19 (She was the first covid patient who died in Singapore). Both of them were believers while most of my relatives weren’t. The pastor conducting the funeral service attempted to comfort my relatives by emphasising the fact that my aunt was in a better place; heaven, positioning salvation and the gospel almost like a clickbait of sorts, an attempt to convince my relatives to accept Jesus into their lives to reunite with her someday.

That got me thinking about :

• “What sets our gospel message apart from the rest of varied faiths?”

• “What was it about the gospel that provoked and convicted people (and pagans) to embrace a Jewish Man? Even at the cost of their own lives in the 1st century?”

• “Are we missing something in our gospel presentation today? What gospel did the apostles preach that gave them the courage to lose their lives for the sake of it?