For September 5, 2026
The Believer’s Abnormal Testimony by Greg Holmes, D.MIN – Director of Missions serving 17 churches
THE BOTTOM LINE OF THE GOSPEL of Jesus Christ, at an intensely personal level, is simply this: Death does not end our existence. And, if death does not end our existence, what impact does that have, should that have, on our current lives? This is not an all-or-nothing question; instead, it is an either-or question. Blaise Pascal, a well-known intellectual-philosophical convert to Christianity in seventeenth century France, offered a pragmatic reason in the argument for believing in God: even under the assumption that God’s existence is unlikely, the potential benefits of believing are so vast as to make counting on theism as rational. Pascal, a trained mathematician, developed a four-part equation composed of either believing or not believing against the outcomes of either heaven and hell existing or not existing.