From John 3:18-21 comes a stunning message with a strong challenge. Pastor Jonathan sees the world as a river flowing away from God toward eternal destruction. The flow is so slow that people don’t even realize they are moving away from God and gradually deteriorating.
Our task is to turn around in the river by the grace of God to face towards God, and then bring others with us upstream toward Jesus. The flow of people in society is against our task as they continually flow downstream, and makes our efforts at helping them turn around a hard task to do. If we face Jesus and do not bring others with us or move toward Jesus, then we are also floating downstream even while looking at Jesus. We are to be “River Raiders“ and live that out every day.