If a person is drowning in the water, it means they can't get out on their own.

There must be a life saver to go get them.

Dr. Tony Evans says Christians are called to be a help to those who strayed from the truth.

And we are not being the people of God if all we do is come to church.

You are not the people of God unless we're touching lives, changing lives, helping lives,

investing in lives.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oakcliffe

Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and president of the Urban Alternative.

Some churches are so focused on people coming through the front door, they barely notice

the wounded believers moving out the back.

Let's join Dr. Evans as he talks about how to help those who find themselves being pulled

from the faith.

In case you didn't know it, Christians are called to be life savers.

We're called to be in the business of rescuing people who have strayed from the truth.

And when Christians fail in that responsibility, we become co-conspirators in folk who are

drowning.

Because either we were not on our perch or we didn't care enough the climate, James

concludes his book, His Treaties, by challenging Christians to look out for other Christians who

are drowning, who have strayed, who have wondered.

James wants to make sure that they know churches just come in for singing, preaching, and praying

as strategic and important as all of that is.

He tells these Christians and therefore he tells us that we are life savers, we are to

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