Today while teaching the youth church I was asked what about the people that never heard the Gospel. I thought that this was much too important a question to answer off the cuff so this is my response to their question. Understanding Grace. Whenever we talk about the love of Christ, salvation through Christ alone, we are accosted with this very question. “ What about those people that have never heard of Christ? ” For most Christians this is a very difficult question to reply to. It disarms us in our ignorance, and insinuates that God the creator of the universe is unjust for not reaching the rest of the world, and unfair for punishing some that have not accepted the offer of salvation through Christ, while giving no way for them to accept the offer of salvation. What they are really saying is " God is not fair when He sends innocent people to hell for not knowing Christ ". However, fairness is not what we really want, because if we wanted fairness then all of ...