Give them not hell, but hope and courage. Do not push them deeper into their despair, but preach the kindness and everlasting love of God. With the rise and resurgence of conservative born-again Christianity in our land we need to recapture John Murray's vision of hope and courage, light and understanding, and make it our own. And we need to make salvation an important value again for ourselves and for others. We need to make it important because it is important, but we need to see it and understand it in a new light.
Salvation is as much a direction of growth as a state of being.
These are salvation questions that have immediate and long-term consequences for each individual person and for the human race as a whole. If there is life after death, and I happen to be one of those who believe it to be so, it will be there for all of us or not at all, and nothing we think or do or say can change its essential reality or unreality. It is, or it is not. But whether it is or not the most important task before us is to make the best of the one life we have while we have it and rest confidently in the faith that the best will follow what e'r betide. Human beings help to create their own heaven and hell on earth.