Letter to an Unsaved Friend

Hello there. You ever read a "Gospel tract"? They can really simplify the Gospel...sometimes too much. For one to have a better understanding of the Gospel it really takes the Holy Spirit to open one's eyes to understand the Truth. God can still use the tract in a person's life though. You ever given one of those Gospel tracts to a friend? Here's a letter I wrote to an unsaved friend I have. I haven't given them the letter but it really expresses my heart's desire...

Dear Friend,

I love you, and because I love you I have to share some truth with you. I'm in love with the God who saved my life. Literally. At the end of the day, my hope is in Him. He’s my Rock. I’ve been praying for you for years. Begging God to rescue you from being eternally separated from Him in hell. To open your eyes to show you that you need Him, that there is nothing you can do to save yourself, to realize that you are in desperate need of a Savior. He sent Someone to save you – Jesus. He was called the Son of God. Ya see, back then in that culture, to say that He was the Son of God was to say that He WAS God and put Himself on an equal level with God. But He is God! John chapter 1 clearly says this in the first few verses and then later in the chapter explains that the "Word" mentioned in those verses is Jesus and that He is God. Jesus was sent to Earth in the simplest way – he was born. Born of a virgin so maybe it wasn’t SO simple. But that makes it even more miraculous. Jesus knew exactly what His mission on Earth was – to teach people about God and how to have a relationship with Him; to teach about how much God loves everyone; to teach the right way to please God. He also did miracles and spoke prophesies to show that He was who He said He was. But forget all that – anyone could’ve done that. What made Jesus so unique is that He, an innocent man was sentenced to die. But He knew that would happen. That’s a part of why He came. Not JUST to die 'cuz that ain't so unique. Everyone DIES. He was to take on all the bad things that everyone had done and would do, every bad thought, and all – He was to take it on Himself and it was nailed to the cross with Him. It was very symbolic but very real at the same time. He wasn’t killed though – He gave up His life. He even said, “Father, into Your hands I commit my spirit.” Who does that?! He did! And to further prove that He was who He said He was (the Son of God; the Christ – Greek for the Hebrew/Aramaic word, the Messiah – all meaning, the anointed One), God raised Him from the dead 3 days later! And this Dude walked around and talked to people and continued to tell others about God. He even commissioned His followers to go and spread this news all over the world so that people would know and have the opportunity to be rescued from that eternal separation from God and to have the opportunity to have a real relationship with God. The kind that wasn’t possible after Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating the forbidden fruit. But now through Jesus, a kind of “Second Adam” we have another chance! Jesus’ followers spread that news, too, and baptized people to symbolize their new life. I heard that news, too. Many times growing up going to church and finally it all made sense. God opened my eyes and heart to see that this news was true and that I needed to confess with my mouth and believe in my heart that Jesus really was who He said and that He’d done what He was sent to do. At that moment, things didn’t change on the outside, but God began to do some things in my life and heart to make me more like Him. Making me better. Enabling me to please Him. Of course I still mess up cuz I’m human (everyone does!) but I have God’s Holy Spirit to help me. Jesus promised that He would send the Holy Spirit to always be with us and help us. The Holy Spirit even did something inside – He made my spirit alive so that I had that “born again” thing happen to me that Jesus talked about in John chapter 3. My life has been forever changed and I am forever grateful. And you can have the same thing happen in your life! I want that for you! GOD wants that for you! He wants everyone to turn things around and be saved from that eternal separation from Him according to what the Bible says in 2 Peter. That’s why I’ve been praying for you so that you can understand. Please consider what I’ve said.


You can give this letter to one of your friends if you'd like.  I won't hunt you down for plagiarism. :)

Til next time,
U.M.