If I can put it broadly, the church (all saved Christians) seeks to embrace the willing stranger into a shared relationship with the eternal Savior who provides for all. That’s the end game. Heaven come to earth but is not glued down to the mortal coil, it goes with you always.
If I can put it broadly, the church (all saved Christians) seeks to embrace the willing stranger into a shared relationship with the eternal Savior who provides for all.
And there is only one way to that relationship, and it's only by accepting the one and only way that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob provided, by way of the Messiah of Israel -- according to the Gospel...
That message comes first, first and first... before all else...
The Bible says in Romans 10 about salvation...
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame." 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. 13 For "whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."
It's the Gospel Message that is the salvation for all who hear and who accept...
1 Corinthians Chapter 15 1 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. 6 After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. 7 After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. 8 Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 11 Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.