Why We Do Evangelism: What Does Hell Have to Do with It?  In the
recent debates about hell, stirred by the book Love Wins and the
various blogs, articles and books now written in response to Rob
Bell, I have heard many rather ridiculous arguments and
statements on every side of this debate. At some point I may say
more but there is one argument I want to take up today that I’ve
heard all my life and find completely lacking in biblical
evidence.  hell The argument goes like this—if people are lost
eternally without consciously knowing and hearing about Jesus
then if we remove this doctrinal point, namely that they must
“hear” or they will burn in hell forever, we destroy the/a
primary motive for our doing evangelism. My point here is not to
open Pandora’s Box about the destiny of the un-evangelized but
rather to ask a simple question: “Is this motive about saving
people from hell who have not heard really a necessary and
biblically given motive for evangelism?” So far as I can tell it
is not.  To ask the quest