Souls Not Statistics: Why Every Life Deserves Our Compassion

Did you know that 7,500 people die each day in the United States? That's not just a statistic—it's 7,500 unique individual lives coming to an end.

When we reduce these deaths to mere numbers, we lose sight of the humanity behind each one. Each person had a name, a family, dreams, a life story and more importantly, a soul.

True, biblical evangelism acknowledges people by name, not by count. This shift from numbers to names transforms how we view souls and fundamentally changes our capacity for compassion.

A real Bible-believer remembers that all souls matter.

Jude 21-23 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

May we all stand ready to throw out the life-line of the Lord Jesus Christ. Remember the words of the hymn writer:

Throw out the lifeline across the dark wave;
There is a brother whom someone should save;
Somebody’s brother, O who then will dare
To throw out the lifeline, his peril to share?

Throw out the lifeline with hand quick and strong;
Why do you tarry, why linger so long?
See, he is sinking, O hasten today;
And out with the lifeboat, away, then, away!

Throw out the lifeline to danger-fraught men,
Sinking in anguish where you’ve never been;
Winds of temptation and billows of woe
Will soon hurl them out where the dark waters flow.

Soon will the season of rescue be o’er;
Soon will they drift to eternity’s shore;
Haste then, my brother, no time for delay!
But throw out the lifeline and save them today.

Throw out the lifeline! Throw out the lifeline!
Someone is drifting away;
Throw out the lifeline! Throw out the lifeline!
Someone is sinking today.

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