As we've released this Omega Course, we've heard from a few folks (usually through back channels) that the study of the end times is irrelevant and people just don't care. To those folks, allow me to make the following comparison.
If you took everyone to attended all 256 NFL games and put them in one spot (a big spot, say...Wyoming), then added all of the people who attended one of the 1230 NBA games last season and put them along side the NFL attendees, you'd have a big honkin' crowd....around 29 million people.(1) Impressive, and a nightmare for porta potties, I'm sure.
Yet in order to match the number of people who have purchased a book in the Left Behind series, you'd need to take both those crowds and add the metropolitain populations of the following cities:
- Cincinnati
- Cleveland
- Denver
- St. Louis
- Minneapolis
- Kansas City
- Seattle
- Phoenix
Growing pains, indeed.
Tell me again about people not being interested. Maybe it's just that we're uncomfortable because we've ignored the topic.
1) Fox Sports
2) Wikipedia: List of United States Metropolitan Areas
6 comments:
Good point, BUT :
A big space = Wyoming?! HAHA
Probably the most salient point I could make to a believer about studying the end times (at least, this clinched it for me) was that JESUS TAUGHT ON THE LAST DAYS, and HE SAID WATCH AND PRAY.
A consolidating point I would further make is that not only is Jesus' return inevitable, it truly should be one of the biggest aches in the lives of everyone who calls upon His name that He is not yet physically among us again.
Wow, thanks for putting that in perspective! The next time I'm feeling weird about bringing up an end-times topic I will just remind myself "It's not that they're not interested - maybe it's just that I'm uncomfortalbe because I've ignored the topic."
So do you take the people who are currently in Wyoming out to get those numbers or can they stay?
It depends if they went to the football game.
My sister has a pain in her left behind.
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