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"But we believe in God the Creator," I protested.
She repeated her admonition, and by the desperate expression on her face, I sensed her fear. She had neglected to appease this earthly deity and was determined that I do it for her.
"Christ has paid for all our guilt and sin. We don't need to do that kind of thing," I recited as we headed toward the rim of the Kilauea volcano.
We were walking with our grandson, a student at the nearby Youth With A Mission Bible school. All three of us were startled by the tragic reality of today's sophisticated pagan society.
Our visit to the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park was a special 19th birthday outing for our grandson. Carefully we stepped around the vents where steam seeps out. The stones and lava rocks around these fissures are hot and painful to touch. One area emits sulphur-smelling steam, and the earth around it is crusted with yellow. Viewing the rumpled landscape and walking through a lava tube were interesting--but we could not forget the Pele worshipper.
With gratitude, we reminisced at suppertime. We told our grandson, "How fortunate for us that we were taught the Bible stories when we were young. We've always known about the true God and could tell your parents, and they told you."
"We spend several evenings a week doing outreach," our grandson softly added.
The job to tell the lost of Christ is just as urgent now as in Bible times, we concluded. "How can people have faith in the Lord and ask Him to save them, if they have never heard about Him? And how can they hear, unless someone tells them?" (Romans 10:14, Contemporary English Version).
Hilda J. Born is a member of Central Heights MB Church in Abbotsford, B.C.
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