Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt said: “We do not gain much by just accepting that Christ died and rose again. Many people believe this, but nevertheless, go to hell. This belief is of no help unless you and I experience Jesus as Lord. It is not the worst if some people are unable to believe that Christ rose from the dead – at least they still regard it as something tremendous, too tremendous to confess glibly. The sad thing is that so many people today claim to believe it, and yet it means so little to them. It does not affect their lives.”