Focal Passage: John 1:40-49
The greatest thing we can do for another person is to share Christ with them. If you’re reading this, it is my hope that you already understand that people without Jesus are counted as enemies of God, are dead in their sins, and are under the condemnation and wrath of God.
No matter how kind, benevolent or religious, they will surely die and go to hell without hope.
My question is, if we really believe what we say we really believe about this, why are we not doing more about it? If we really believe that people need Jesus, how much must we hate them not to tell them about Jesus and beg them to be saved?
In the words of Charles Spurgeon, “If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees, imploring them to stay.
If hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and unprayed for.”
Brown
Let us who know the Lord feel the weight of our personal responsibility for every soul we encounter, that we stand before God someday having done all, given all and sacrificed all without any reserve in order that just one more person might know Christ.
Sharing Jesus is not only the best thing we can do for others, but it is the best thing for ourselves as well. Proverbs 11:30 says, “he who wins souls is wise.”
I’ve found that the more committed a person is to personal evangelism, often the godlier they are in many other aspects of their life. They seem to walk in victory over their persistent sins and God seems to bless everything they do.
God loves a soul winner. So, if I want to be wise and I desire my life to be blessed by God beyond what I can imagine, the best thing I can do is to faithfully share the gospel and compel others to follow Jesus.
There’s a lot of things I’ve said or done that I regret, but I’ve never regretted a single time I’ve told someone their desperate need of Jesus and invited them to be saved.
There are countless ways to do it. There are programs and processes in abundance. There is hardly a wrong way to share the gospel, as long as it is indeed the gospel you are sharing.
The only wrong way to share the gospel, I would argue, is to not do it at all. People will never be saved who never hear the gospel. People will never hear the gospel if Christians don’t share it.
The gospel is often described as a seed. A farmer works hard to bring the harvest. He tills the ground, he scatters seeds, he waters and watches them faithfully. Even with all his work, he can’t say for sure which seed will grow and what kind of harvest it might bring.
There is one seed, though, that he always knows what it will do: The seed that is never planted will never bear fruit. I don’t want to die with seeds in my pocket and no harvest of souls. B&R
