Our Role
“How then shall they call on him in whom they
have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not
heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?”
(Romans 10:14).
If they have not heard about Him, they cannot believe in Him. We should not expect people
to trust in Jesus
Christ when they don’t know what He has done for them. We have to give them the opportunity to hear and believe.
We have to give them a chance
to believe, not just by hearing
the gospel of Jesus Christ, but
more importantly, hearing it
well. Don’t think everybody has heard just because
the gospel is being preached
on television and radio; or
even through tracts and newspapers.
Many unconverted have heard the wrong things.
Some years ago, I invited a man to church, but he told me he had
made up his mind not to go to church anymore.
In fact, he said the last time he went to church
was two years before. When I
asked why, he answered that he had
been going from church to church, then finally he found himself in one church
with his friend, where they called
them out as sinners because they
were strangers.
They were called out to the front and ordered
to lie down flat on the floor, which they did. Then they were
told they had sin in their lives, for which they needed forgiveness from God.
This meant they had to pay the penalty and this they were supposed to do by receiving
several lashes of the whip. He told
me that his friend obliged, because he wanted all his sins to be taken away. So they went ahead and started
whipping his friend, but before
they got through
with his friend,
he escaped through
the window! He said though he wanted his sins dealt with, he didn’t think he could withstand the beating. It was that day
he made up his mind
never to be in a church service anymore.
This story may sound unbelievable, but it’s true; that’s
the kind
of message he heard. It took so much time to change his conception about Christianity. I had to make him
understand that Jesus Christ never meant it to be so. Don’t think everyone has heard it. Many have not heard the true gospel. They only heard something like it, and that’s
a lie. A lie is not necessarily the opposite of truth but a
perversion of it. Initially,
it goes in the direction
of truth, but suddenly veers off, and many do not realize it. Apostle
Paul asks, “...how
shall they hear without a preacher?” (Romans 10:14).
Most sinners will not come to church;
drug addicts will not come to church. The prostitutes will not come to church because
they rest during
the day and carry out their
business in the
night time. For everyone of them that goes to a church, you may have
ten thousand more out there on rampage.
All their activities keep them away from church.
So what do we do?
Do we pray that God will bring them? No! The Holy Ghost is not an errand
boy.
Some Christians pray, “Holy
Ghost I send
You to talk to them.” Who do you think is boss? He was theOne
who instructed Philip, “Go
and join the chariot.”
Stop praying for God to talk to your friend,
or speak to his heart.
Some people give the conversion of Saul of Tarsus as an example, forgetting that Saul of Tarsus still
needed a man named Ananias.
God instructed Ananias to minister to Paul after his encounter with Jesus. God still needed to send a man to Paul to tell him what He had for him to do. God still needs you to be His witness and talk to
people for Him.
If you have any questions, observations, prayer points or
special requests please use the comment box below. Thanks and God Bless you.
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