The Bridge

This is the bridge illustration that when the Holy Spirit prompts you, you could share with a friend who is interested in coming to faith in Christ.

You have to establish the reality of two beings: people and God. Between people and God is a great chasm—a division that exists because of people's tendency to rebel against God's way and go their own way instead. These are the mistakes we make in life. The Bible calls this "sin."

The dilemma people face is that we want to get to God but know we can't just leap over the chasm. So we try exerting human effort, hoping we can get the bridge built. In the end, we realize that all the human effort in the world will never be enough to get us to the other side.

But thankfully, God sympathized with our dilemma. And because he loved us so much, he intervened so that we would have a means of getting close to him. His solution was to choose his Son, Jesus, to serve as the bridge.

If you remember nothing else about the bridge illustration, remember this: Christ came to earth to be our bridge, and whoever makes the decision to cross the bridge will live with God forever. The apostle John put it this way in John 5:24, "I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life" (NIV).