A hospice is a place where the terminally ill are cared for during their last days. But the church isn't a place where sinners come to stay as they are until they die. The gospel of Jesus doesn't save us in our sins or in spite of our sins but from our sins (Matthew 1:21). In the end, both the saved and the lost will have one thing in common: they were all sinners. The fundamental difference will be that the saved were sinners who wanted out of sin, and Jesus made them whole. The lost liked sin and refused to accept the cure that Jesus so graciously proffered. |