Today I want to talk with you about one of the hardest subjects in all the world to talk about as a pastor. In fact, experts in church growth tell pastors and church leaders to steer away from this topic because even church people don''t want to hear about it. If you don''t want to lose your congregation, they tell us, don''t talk about this particular topic. But we are duty-bound, we are under commission to talk about this subject because the Lord talked about it so very much in his life and his ministry.The subject is hell.

You may have heard about a young woman about to get married who said to her mother, "I can''t marry him, mother. He''s an atheist and he doesn''t believe there is a hell."

Her mother responded, "That''s all right, dear, marry him and between the two of us I am sure …