Sharing the Savior’s Story

Never More Urgent

At the beginning of my ministry, I visited with a very old minister. He spoke of when he was a young man; he was invited by a Christian warden to speak to the inmates of the penitentiary. The night before, the pastor went to the jail to learn the setup of the service. Surveying the assembly room, his eyes were immediately drawn to two chairs draped in black. He asked why. The warden said, “These two chairs are draped for death. The men who sit in these chairs will be executed this week. Reverend, your sermon will be the last these men will ever hear.”

Excerpt from The Lutheran Hour broadcast of: May 4, 2003