IF YOU ARE SAVED, WHY HAVE YOU NOT SHARED THE GOOD NEWS WITH SOMEONE?

If you were to see a burning building and a child in there was about to be engulfed in flames, would you not have compassion to rescue the child, rather than to see her perish in the flames.

So as true Christians we are to have compassion for lost souls. In fact winning lost people to Jesus Christ, is the principal duty of every Christian. I said every Christian!

Jude 22-23 tells us to “contend for the faith once delivered to the saints.”

Jude is a book that tells us that we must be doctrinally orthodox. If we truly believe right, we must also behave right.

Francis Schaffer said:

“perhaps the ugliest thing in the world is orthodoxy without compassion.”

Orthodoxy without compassion excludes caring for the lost. If God used you to win one soul to Jesus Christ, just think what that would mean! You would have brought someone to Christ worth more than this entire world .

And yet, as I look at our churches, I’m broken hearted because I know that most pastors, and most people are not soul winners. It perplexes me.

• Most church people have never brought one soul to Jesus Christ.
• But that’s not the saddest thing. The saddest thing is that most church people don’t even try.
• But that’s not the saddest thing, the saddest thing is most church people don’t even care!

Don’t even care!

If you cared you would try; if you tried, and went forth with weeping bearing precious seed, according to scripture, you would doubtless come again bringing your sheaves with you.

I’m going to say something and it’s going to sound mean. It’s not mean! And it’s not something I’m saying off the top of my head. It’s not something I haven’t thought through!

• If you do not care about seeing people saved
• If you are not concerned about bringing the lost to Jesus Christ
• I seriously doubt that you have been born again.
• I seriously doubt that you know the Lord Jesus Christ.
• How could you have received such mercy?
• How could you have received such love, and not want to share it.

Oh for the motive of compassion! It is the compassion we have received from Him. The mercy we have received from Him. I’m amazed that some people are not even interested in bring souls to Jesus Christ.

Real Christians are not about playing games, or playing church, or refusing to authorize tracts to be handed out as lost souls are being entertained at their church events.

Rather, true Christians love our Lord, and are obedient to the great commission of evangelism, and soul winning.

Romans 8:9
“if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.”

What is the spirit of Christ?

• It is the spirit of compassion!
• It is the spirit of love!
• It is the spirit of evangelism

Let’s start evangelizing before it’s too late, and the master takes us home!

I pray the Holy Spirit will use this exhortation in your life.

Dr. Brian Henry
Go ye…..