I was in a drug store in a village several years ago and noticed that one of the fountains was plated “Don’t Care.” The druggist answered my inquiry in these significant words. “Why, that’s for people who have no preferences. We just put all the part bottles of flavor together and call it ‘Don’t Care’.” “Just like some Christians,” I mused.

      “Don’t Care” Christians say it does not make any difference what one believes just so he is sincere. The Bible shows only one way of salvation. “Other foundation can no man lay that than is laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1 Cor. 3:11). “Without shedding of blood is no remission” (Heb. 9:22). “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).

      “Don’t Care” Christians do not care about baptism. Sprinkling, pouring, or immersion, or neither, whatever one chooses, they say. Yet the Bible calls baptism a burial (Rom. 6:4), and shows that Jesus (Mt. 3) and the Ethiopian Eunuch (Acts 8) went down into the water, and were baptized, and then came up out of the water. Immersion alone meets the demands of Scripture. The word for “baptize” means “to dip, to plunge, to immerse.” Scholars are agreed on that.

      “Don’t Care” Christians say that one church is as good as another. The man who says one woman is as good as another is untrue to his wife. The man who says one church is as good as another has a perverted love for Jesus. The church for which he died (Acts 20:28), the church to which He promised perpetuity (Mt. 16:18), the church which is His body (1 Cor. 12:27), the church that holds the Apostles’ doctrine (Acts 2:42) deserves more respect than human institutions. Baptist churches meet the Scriptural requirements in declaring salvation wholly by grace through faith in Christ Jesus, regenerated church membership, believer’s baptism, democratic church government. Baptists have been doing business for Jesus since the day He built His church until now. No other has such historical lineage and faithfulness to the truth of the New Testament.

      “Don’t Care” Christians can go to movies, dances, jook joints, play bridge and bolita, and gamble while “Do Care” Christians must keep themselves unspotted from the world (Jas. 1:27) and not be conformed to this world and its sinful ways (Rom. 12:2).

      “Don’t Care” Christians can be “at ease in Zion” (Amos 6:1) and “settled on their lees” (Zeph. 1:12). “Do Care” Christians must be zealous and energetic, never satisfied unless souls are being saved and the churches of our Lord growing in purity and spiritual power.

      “Don’t Care” Christians can visit or stay at home or make the Lord’s day a day of pleasure without concern. “Do Care” Christians go through rain or shine to worship at God’s house, put their vows to God above their visiting, and consider the progress of the Lord’s work above their own pleasure and ease.

      “Don’t Care” Christians rob God of His tithe and spend all they make on themselves. “Do Care” Christians bring or send their tithe and offerings regularly.

      “Don’t Care” Christians read filth and trash while they slight the precious truths of an open Bible.

      “Don’t Care” Christians take out if things do not go to suit them. They take a back seat and pout. They stay at home and nurse their wounded feelings. They are sit-down strikers, striking at those who humbly bury their feelings to regard the feelings of their Savior and Lord (Rom. 15:2-3) and, worst of all, striking at Him whom they profess to love.

      Are you a “Don’t Care” or a “Do Care” Christian?