Pastor Uses Rope To Demonstrate Eternal Life

Francis Chan is a Christian preacher who has been spreading God’s message for years. He is also a speaker, author and helped start Cornerstone Community Church in 1994. What started out as a small 30-person church quickly grew into one of the largest churches in Ventura County, California.

Now, Francis continues to speak the gospel and this particular sermon is one that will hit you hard. Francis starts off my bringing a long piece of rope onto the stage and stretching it out. He asked everyone to imagine that the rope went on forever and that the rope was a timeline of your existence. At the very end, there was a small bit of red on the rope. The rest of it was all white. That’s when Francis went on to illustrate that the red part represented your time on Earth and the white part was your eternal life that you would spend somewhere.

“What blows me away is some of you, all you think about is this red part. It’s all you think about. You’re consumed with this.” Sometimes, we get so caught up in our Earthly distractions that we forget that this period of our lives is just a blip in the grand scheme of it all. Francis continues by saying, “The Bible teaches that what I do during this little red part determines how I’m going to exist for millions and millions and millions of years, forever.” This simple demonstration will truly open your eyes about our eternal life and what really matters. How powerful is this?