Preach the Gospel

Recently while I was in North India for a gospel meeting, an anti-Christian person came to me and asked me: "What right have you Christians to come over here and bother these poor people with your religion?" For which I replied: " It is our right to give to others something that is too good to keep."

At a meeting some young people were discussing the text: "Ye are the salt of the earth." One suggestion after another was made as to the meaning of the salt in the verse. Said one, "Salt imparts a desirable flavor." Another suggested, "Salt preserves from decay." But I like best the words of a little eight year old girl who said, "Salt creates thirst." We are indeed the salt of the earth, but have souls been made thirsty for the Lord Jesus Christ because of our attitude and example? Do men want to know Christ because they know us? Do we have the mind of Christ, his compassion, his love? Can we love the poor, feed them and care for them?

A man who was visiting a rail a railroad yard saw a big engine side-tracked. He said, "The engine looks as if it could go. Why is it switched off here?" The workman replied: "It can pull itself all right, but there is something wrong with it. It can't pull anything else." The Christian who merely keeps himself going is not much of a Christian. It is the duty of a Christian to share the good news of the gospel and to demonstrate his love through compassion works.

"And how can they believe in him if they never have heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them? And how will anyone go and tell them unless someone sends him." Romans 10:14-15.

Go and tell about Jesus. If you cannot go, send some one else who can go and share about Jesus and his love.

Pastor Samuel Isaac