That was the communication spoken during Apollo 13, a NASA mission in the Apollo space program, and the third mission intended to land on the Moon. After an explosion occurred on board the spacecraft en route to the Moon, around 56 hours into the mission, Jack Swigert, the command module pilot, reported to Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas: "Okay, Houston ... we've had a problem here."
Well, we have a problem too. The following report comes from a pastor-friend of mine. Read it and weep.
"A seasoned saint in evangelism told me that he was down doing survey evangelism at the Fort Bend County Fair near Sugar Land, Texas, when he was invited to meet with 15 seminary students and church leaders {several from Southwestern Baptist Seminary & Dallas Theological Seminary} to discuss evangelism.
"He asked them:
'Do you know what the Gospel is?" {No one answered.}
'Can you tell me where the most definitive passage on the Gospel is in the NT? They did not know (1 Cor. 15:1-4) though 1 person blurted out 'John 3:16.'
"On another occasion, 12 seminary students came to observe and tentatively participate in doing the Spiritual Viewpoint / John 3:16 evangelism at the fair. This older gent gave each one of them the 'Spiritual Viewpoint Survey/Interview" and not one of them answered correctly. So they let them watch but not participate in doing fair evangelism as they need first to be evangelized themselves."
As a boy said to Shoeless Joe Jackson of the scandal-ridden 1919 Chicago White Sox, "Say it ain't so Joe."
