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Reverend Dennis Paschke
Reverend Dennis Paschke is the senior pastor at Evangel Holton United Methodist Church, in Holton Kansas. Evangel church is a vital and growing congregation full of life that is changing lives and our community one person at a time. Dennis’ family emigrated from North Dakota to Alberta, Canada to homestead when his father was just a young boy. Rev. Paschke returned to the United States and has lived in many parts of the country. His life has afforded him many blessings before answering God’s call to full-time ministry, including being a vice president of a Fortune 100 company, serving as a chairman of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games and holding a U.S. patent. His greatest blessing in life is his walk with Christ! He believes strong faith always engages the heart and mind. EDUCATION: BSEE from the University of Calgary, Canada, and a Master’s of Divinity from Saint Paul School of Theology. FAMILY: He is married to wife Dawn and they have three sons Corey, Kyle and Marc. The family also includes one “wonder-dog” named Tucker! You can reach Reverend Paschke via email dpasch01@gmail.com.
Religion
2012-08-29 13:40:51
How many people are saved?
Q- There are several verses in the Bible that deal with how many people are saved. Matthew 7:13-14: Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it! And Luke 13:24: Try to come in through the narrow door. Many, I tell you, will try to enter and be unable. Do these mean that more than half of all people are not saved?
A- God created each of us to with the intention to live in a relationship with Him. A loving relationship where God dwells in our midst and we share in His power, presence, and love.But our human condition tends to prompt us to choose to live in a way that embraces things that cannot exist with God in our life. The church calls this sin. God respects our free will to choose what we do with our lives and lets us. The bible is filled with true stories of people who realized this truth and experienced the love of a Heavenly Father here and now. It is also filled with stories of many who chose to ignore the reality of this relationship and their lives missed out on the possibility of living together with God through Christ. If you want to be an Olympic swimmer you must live your life along a path in a certain way to reap the rewards of that life. If you want to be claimed by God as a His own child you must live as He would to reap the rewards. That way is living as Jesus taught. There are many other paths we can chose in life. But any path that does lead to the love of the Heavenly Father leads only to everything that is against our Heavenly Father. Jesus is the fullest presence of God in human flesh and it is in and through living His life we find life that is truly life – with God! God in His Wisdom chose to reveal this truth only through hearts that are willing to trust in Him and His goodness. To those who are not willing to trust Him this truth, all this sounds like foolishness. But that does not make the truth that we have living God who wants to live in our lives less true. To live into this life we must be loving willing to go where he asks, live as he would live, and love as he loves. That path in life is called the ‘narrow path’ scriptures because there is only one way that leads to it. Those who chose it discover it is absolutely true, and discover a fullness to life that they previous never knew existed! To be saved means to be saved from a life and death that draws you away from the narrow path defined by God through Jesus!
 
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