Evangelistic Responsibility Of The Church： Go! — Tim Conway

Pursuing Lost Souls Despite Fear and Discomfort

To pursue lost souls more than you do right now. And I'm not saying that nobody here does. I'm just saying that I'm made of the same stuff you are. And I know, I can tell when I'm around all of God's people, I know that there are some of you that are more outgoing.

Your personalities are different. You know this if you've been around me any amount of time. I tend to be socially awkward by nature. I am not a public speaker. I'm not comfortable with that. I'm not comfortable violating people's personal space with the Gospel.

I can tell you that Ruby and I, we had Brother Sam Patron come over there to Manchester and he left me a couple 25-amp speakers to go out and there have been times standing out there in the middle of Manchester city center where I just feel paralyzed inside.

But then I start speaking to the people and there's great liberty. Whether it's speaking to somebody in a restaurant, speaking to family members. If God would help me to do anything today, it's that you might pursue one more soul.

You might be more evangelistic. I want you to turn in your Bibles to Luke 14. Sometimes we can get going in this Christian life and we can get to the place, oh, what can be done for an old heart like mine?

Soften it up with oil and wine. Last night, our brother had tears as he was speaking about the tears. But you know, my eyes are dry. Isn't that what Keith Green sang? My eyes are dry, my faith is old.

You get to the place where a heart is hard. My prayers are cold. We can see lost people like this and we don't weep. We can be pretty distant. We can be separated. We live in our place. It's fairly comfortable here.

The Servants’ Command to Go

Luke 14, I want us to look at what is probably very well known to many of you. Verse 16, a man who once gave a great banquet and invited many. Now, the thing that I want you to capture as I read this is there are two imperatives in the verse.

You know what I mean. There are two commandments. There are two verbs that are telling people to do something. And just keep your eyes open for those. A man once gave a great banquet and invited many.

And at the time for the banquet, he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, come. There's an imperative. People are commanded. They're invited. They're beseeched. Even pleaded with. Come, let us reason together.

This is an imperative. Everything is ready. Come. But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, I bought a field. I must go out and see it. Please have me excused. Another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen.

And I go to examine them. Please have me excused. Another said, I've married a wife and therefore I cannot come. So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, go.

And you'll see it again. But that is the next imperative here. Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame. And the servant said, sir, what you commanded has been done.

And still there is room. And the master said to the servant, go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in. That my house may be filled for I tell you none of those men who are invited shall taste my banquet.

Allow me to do something here. We recognize, it's very clear if you study the passage. We recognize that in verse 18, they is speaking to the people who've been invited. But allow me to do something. Allow me to put a twist on the passage.

They is the servants. Not those invited, it's the servants. Read it that way. A man once gave a great banquet, invited many. At the time for the banquet, he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, come for everything is now ready.

But they, the servants, all alike began to make excuses. The first said, I bought a field. I must go out and see it. Please have me excused. Not from the feast, but from going out and compelling the people to come in.

Have me excused. I have this field. Field. The other said, I have bought five oxen. I go to examine them. Please have me excused. You know, when Spurgeon preached on this passage, 1858, Royal Surrey Gardens, he specifically said this, I feel in such a haste to go out and obey the commandment this morning.

And I ask myself, huh, he saw a commandment in here for himself. Not the commandment for the people that he was going to press to the feast. He saw a commandment for himself. I wonder, do we feel that?

You see what's said here? The servant said in verse 22, sir, what you have commanded has been done. But I want to ask honestly, go out into the hedges and highways. What you commanded has been done. And you know, we can read this oftentimes and you can just read right over that.

You can read right over that and not feel personal responsibility with regards to that, unlike what Spurgeon felt. Spurgeon felt this need, this necessity for himself to do something. Let's pray. Father, I pray that as I seek to speak on this, Lord, I want to be able to just reach out and grab hold of hearts, my own included.

Lord, help. I pray in Christ's name, amen. I just wonder, can we, listen, here's my question. Sir, what you have commanded has been done. That's what the servant here says. And I just want us to self-reflect.

Ask yourself, Christian, this is messages to the Christians in this place. I want you to ask yourself this. With all you have going on in your life, the trials, the difficulties, the busyness of life, the need to support your family, to raise your children, to live out your singleness, whatever it is, wherever you find yourself in life, if you self-reflect, if you ask yourself, can you say to the Lord what the servant here said?

That everything that he's commanded, what he's commanded has been done based on your own involvement in this. My question to you, Christian, you recognize what this message has to do with. It has to do with the evangelistic responsibility of the church.

And just us self-reflecting. How involved are we actually in this? That's the question. Can we honestly say that we have been quickly, quickly going out to the highways and hedges, whether they're a faraway place like that, or they're up and down your own neighborhood within the context of your own family, your own workplace, your own college, your own high school, wherever it is that you find yourself, are you seeking to win souls?

That's the question that I have on the table right now. Actually, Spurgeon's message was called compel them to come in. And I want to compel you to compel them to come in. My task is different. I'm aiming at the servant right now.

I'm wanting to compel the ones that are supposed to be in the highways and hedges. So if I'm going to compel you, I have to find you out because I know what can happen. You know, we heard our brother last night and he mentioned Whitfield.

And we say, well, we're not Whitfield. We're not called to do what Whitfield, you know, gets up here and tells us all about that. And you can, you know, we can dodge this. We can imagine that we are not actually the people who are the servants who have a responsibility here.

And that's one of the ways that we can excuse ourselves. We can make the excuse. We can excuse it. Please have me excused. Why? Well, because I'm not a pastor. I'm not a missionary. I'm not a church planter.

I'm not one of those people that are expected to go out and do this kind of thing. And I can see you out there. You dodge this because this is somebody else's response. You're not an evangelist. You're not a deacon.

You're not an elder. And so what if I told you that evangelizing and proclaiming the gospel, proclaiming the cross, proclaiming Christ, what if I told you that this is for everyone who desires to save his own life?

Losing Life for the Gospel

You know, one of the things that happens, we often can't hear Jesus because we kind of have our Pauline doctrine of justification by faith so perfectly worked out in our mind that when Jesus comes along and He talks the way He talks, it just sometimes it goes right over us.

Listen to this. You've read this before. You've heard this. Mark 8, verse 35. Whoever would save his life will lose it. Whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's sake will save it. Have you thought about that verse before?

You see, we don't like to think that way. If I want to save my life, my spiritual life, if I want to save my spiritual life, then I'm going to lose my life for the gospel's sake? And I just ask you this, Christian, have you lost your life for the gospel's sake?

Has that happened? Have you found something in this message? There's a glory. There's a beauty. There's a motivation in the gospel that makes you view everything. It makes you view life and comfort and security and safety and retirement and money and your plans and your dreams and your vacations and all of that.

Have you found something in the gospel that makes you consider this life altogether differently? Has some glory jumped out at you and grabbed hold of you to where it constrains you now? There is a glory in this message.

There is something marvelous. There is something in this Christ revealed in this message and what He's done by the shedding of His blood. Has something happened where now you look at the rest of your life and you say, you know what?

I'm going to die to that. I'm going to live for this. Because Jesus says that if you live for those things, for the money and the retirement and the vacations, then you lose your soul. So that's the question.

Has the gospel given you reason to lose your life? Can't you say? Absolutely. It's the most glorious thing I've ever come across and it absolutely changes everything. Or there's this. It took us to Revelation 12 yesterday.

You know this verse. They, the Christians, have conquered Him. You remember the Him there He was talking about in Revelation 12 yesterday? Who's the Him? Who have we conquered? The bird? The dragon? Satan?

The devil? We? Who are we? Those who keep the commandments of God, right? What else? We keep the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus. Is that what it says? Listen to this. We conquer Him. They have conquered Him by the blood of the Lamb.

And you know what? We get that. And we often think of that. And that blood is precious. But you know what goes on to say this? It says, and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.

Isn't that what Jesus just got done telling us in Mark's gospel? That if you lose your life for the gospel's sake, and you see it's the word of their testimony. You know what? We fight fallen angels. That's who we're doing battle with.

And how do we conquer? The word. That's got to do with speech. That's got to do with a message. Testimony. That means that we testify. And you know it's right there in the context of the blood. Do you not have something to say to the world about what the blood of Christ has done for you?

And that's how they're victorious. That's how they win this battle. There is definitely a conquering aspect to our evangelism. There's something about the blood of Christ that constrains us. It hems us in.

It leaves us with no choice but to speak. And then you get this. We also heard about this. This was brought up. Ephesians 6, verse 12, where it says, we wrestle not against flesh and blood, we wrestle against rulers, authorities, cosmic powers, spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Therefore take up the whole armor of God. Do all to stand firm. Put on, you know what it says, put on your feet. Put on a shoes for your feet. The readiness given by the gospel of peace. Now feet. What does that denote?

That denotes mobility. That denotes motion. That's the idea that there is some kind of advancement. There is movement here. And there's a readiness. You notice what it says. The gospel of peace. I mean, the good news of the life and the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the fact that it brings peace between God and man.

Brethren, you know what this is saying? You need to be so convicted about the truth of this message. This message of salvation that you're ready. There's a readiness as you go through life. You come across the waitress.

You come across the family member. You come across these things. You're passing by somebody on the street. You can stop because why? You have a message that they don't know, that they don't have, that lead them to life, lead them to Christ.

Ordinary Christians as Witnesses

And you know the thing about this? You think about the very context in which this is found. It's found in Ephesians 6. You say, we recognize. No. Think. This chapter starts by talking about children and parents and servants and masters.

And you go right before that, and it's husbands and wives. You say, okay, the significance is this. This is ordinary people, folks. This isn't the super saints. Just ordinary Christians. We stand, we conquer.

Oh, and what happens? Well, the devil will tell you, you're not gifted like that. I mean, this isn't for you. Somebody else is more qualified. What's the use? Who are you? But think with me. Think with me.

You know this. The man who had the demoniac. You remember him. Well, he did what any of us would have wanted to do. He wanted to go with Jesus. Wouldn't you have wanted that? You would have wanted him to get in the boat and go with the rest of the disciples, and Jesus, what did Jesus tell him?

You remember what Jesus told him? What do you tell him? Yeah, go back. I heard that. Go, go. Wait, wait, wait. The guy hasn't been to seminary yet. I mean, you don't take a guy that was just full of demons in the morning and send him to go.

Well, Jesus did. And folks, you see what Jesus' expectation is? This is a common guy. This is a newly saved guy. Doesn't he need training first? I mean, Lord, he's not ready. Or how about this? How about a woman?

The woman at the well? I mean, you know what happened. She is lost in the morning, gets saved at the well in the middle of the day, heads back to her countrymen, and they said, it was by the testimony of the...

Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Christ because of the woman's testimony. Now, do you remember what we read out of Revelation? The word of their testimony. That's how they conquered. The word of their testimony.

This woman, she's a woman. So this isn't even specific to gender here. You can't, ladies, you can't dodge this. They, what do you have here? You have a woman who, if you go compare her testimony to what's happening in Revelation 12, this woman's a dragon slayer.

I mean, do you realize what she just did by her testimony? Is a bunch of her countrymen were set free from the bondage of the devil. I mean, there was conquering there. The blood of Christ. Conquering cosmic powers.

This woman, by her testimony. In the morning, she's lost. In the afternoon, that's what she's doing. And Jesus didn't say, well, you should not have been doing that. Too newly saved. Don't you know women aren't supposed to preach?

None of that. Brethren, the question we have to ask is, what has the Lord done for you? Has he given you something to say? I mean, we need to remember, who are we? Who are we? Well, Christian, what we're told is that we're a chosen race.

We're told that we're a royal priesthood. And if you know the passage, you know exactly where I'm going. Why has Jesus chosen us? Why has he, what has he done for us? We're to be a people of his own possession.

We're Christ's private property. And Peter specifically tells us that we may proclaim the excellencies of him who called us out of darkness. The excellencies. I just ask you all, excellencies, proclaim the excellencies.

Proclaiming Christ’s Excellencies

Are there none to proclaim? I mean, when you start thinking, oh, you start thinking about the Song of Solomon and you start thinking, as we heard, you start thinking about, brethren, all you have to do is begin to just see Christ.

See him. I mean, really see him. Wail over Jerusalem. See his heart. If you will, you can make me clean. I mean, see him. Really? The first miracle, he turned water into wine. What's that saying to us?

What's he doing? Why is he at a wedding? You see, he's showing us God didn't, God isn't just about putting us down. I mean, is it water into wine? Good wine. What does it say to us? What does it say to us when he wails over Jerusalem?

And then he tells us, I want you to follow me. I want you to put your footsteps in my footsteps. I want you to go where I go. I want you to say what I say. Folks, we can get to the place where we get going in our Christian life and we get in our Christian subculture and we can just get ice.

You know what? We can become too withdrawn from the world. And look, like I say, I'm made of the same stuff you are. I'm confronted by the same kinds of things, but this is what we've been called to, the excellencies, the excellencies.

You think of Christ. There's no average person. I mean, the Spirit of God comes upon Mary. Here this virgin gives birth. You have this Christ come forth, a baby. Can you imagine if you saw this baby who is the mighty God and the governments are going to be placed upon his shoulder and he's come to bear the sins and drink the wrath of God.

Is there nothing? Is there no excellency to be found? Emmanuel, he's God with us. He laid aside that eternal glory that he had with his Father. He left it behind. He came from the halls of heaven. Think about it.

He came down here, the fragrance of heaven upon him. And he stood among us and his own didn't receive him. And you know what the Scripture says, the Gentiles, all the Gentiles, they're just flowing in to this mountain.

They're being grafted in. We live in such a blessed time to be a Gentile. But isn't there excellency, pure, blameless, Lamb of God, always about his Father's business? And folks, do we have nothing to say?

Listen, listen to something. Oftentimes we just kind of go over this. Acts 8, just consider this. A great persecution against the church in Jerusalem. Right? You remember that. Acts 8. This great persecution.

The Scattered Church Preaching the Word

Saul wasn't saved yet. Persecution. What happens? And they were all scattered. Men, women, they were all scattered. Throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. Now, I like that. They were all scattered except the apostles.

Now, you know, you could look at that and you could think, well, why didn't the apostles get scattered? Hey, but just don't let that carry you away. Those who were scattered went about preaching the word.

That doesn't mean they stood in the pulpit. They went out heralding, proclaiming. There's not a pulpit ministry. But you know what I like about it? Specifically, not the apostles. The ordinaries. The ordinaries got scattered.

Now see, it's been a trial to us just to uproot and go to another country. But I mean, we weren't driven out. We didn't lose our possessions. You see, sometimes what happens, we go on in the Christian life and the trials come in.

And we can get to where we're licking the wounds. And we forget, on our worst day, we're heaven bound. And those people out there, where are they headed? I mean, right out there in those neighborhoods.

Jeff spoke the other night, are there gonna be many or are there gonna be few? Well, however it looks in the end, what we know right now is this. If you went around and you went looking for the true Christians in Denton, Texas, there aren't a whole lot.

Not the true ones. And they sit out there in the darkness and we can come and we can have, you know, all of our glorious time of feeding in the Word and we edify one another and build up one another, which we should be doing.

But you know, we can get so going with our lives and we just drive right down back that road. And you know what happens? The people that drive by us on the highway, they're just kind of these ambiguous things.

And we can get right back out there and oh, praise God, we had this time of feeding and we were together and it's a fellowship conference and we had good fellowship and we were talking to all the brethren and what an encouragement it is.

And it is, there's no question about it, it is. But what I want you to see is these people were scattered. And it specifically says not the apostles, not, it's the ordinary believers who are not apostles.

You see a lot, we often get to the place, well, of course the apostles are supposed to be doing, of course Jesus is supposed to be doing that. Of course these other people are supposed to be doing that.

No, no, no, that's not what happened. The early church gets scattered and then what happens? It seems that the expansion of Christianity in those very early days in the church was not primarily carried about who made it their profession to be in the ministry.

You see that? And despite the trials that they were enduring, it's interesting that the Scripture doesn't come right out and tell us, well, you know, they went in search of food and they went in search of jobs and they went in search of housing.

Oftentimes we hear about the Ukrainian refugees and they're coming out and that's what we hear. Well, they went looking for this and we went. Have you heard that the Ukrainian Christians were coming out and the primary thing that's being said about them is they went about everywhere and they proclaiming the gospel?

Well, that's how the Bible talks. Just the ordinary people that get scattered, there they are. Listen, listen to this. Church historian, you know this name, Eusebius of Caesarea. Now he wrote about the early church.

Now he was alive 300 A .D. But he wrote about the church in the early second century. So it was right after John died. Listen to what he says. Many Christians felt their souls inspired by the Holy Word with a passionate desire for perfection.

Imagine that. Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, we ought to strive for that. Imagine people that actually take that serious and strive after that. And their first action in obedience to the instructions of the Savior was to sell their goods and distribute them to the poor.

It seems like Jesus said something about that as well. I mean, you see what's happening. The people were actually, they were getting saved and they were actually being compelled by this love of Christ.

They were being constrained to actually do the things that Jesus said. Strive for perfection. Be perfect as your Father is perfect. Jesus said in Luke 12 that we should indeed sell and distribute to the poor.

And then leaving their home, they set out to fulfill the work of the evangelist, making it their ambition to preach the word of the faith to those who as yet had heard nothing of it. That's what they did in the early church.

Rivers of Living Water and Evangelistic Readiness

And all I'm asking, I mean, see, I have to stand in front of the mirror of the word of God and ask myself, though there's trials, though we advance in age, though there's health issues, what is it that Christ wants us to do?

I'll tell you this, He wants us to live all out. He wants us to live while we have life. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. Now, you know, you can look at that and you say, well, we know that that says that that's speaking about the Spirit of God.

But have you ever recognized what it's saying happens? The Spirit of God had not yet been given because Christ had not yet gone to the Father, but now He has gone to the Father. Now the Spirit has been given.

And something, this is interesting. It doesn't say that something will flow into us. You might almost think that if we were gonna portray, well, God is gonna give the Spirit and something will come into us.

There will be an effusion that will be directed towards us. But isn't it interesting that what Jesus actually describes is for everyone who believes. Rivers of living water flow out. Do you believe that?

Do you believe what Henry said? Do you believe that? That's a reality. I believe that. I believe that when the Spirit of God was given to the early church, first thing they did was busted out on the streets and they began telling everybody in their own language what was happening and the Gospel went out from there.

Something flows out of us. I mean, you just think of the imagery here. When you come to Jesus Christ to drink, that's what He says, come to me and drink. When we actually go to Him, we tap into a spring, we tap into a fountain.

You get the Spirit of Christ. Rivers of living water flow out. Why does that happen? Well, folks, we've come to the river maker. And you just behold the imagery here. Whoever loves His life, for my sake and the Gospel's sake, whoever loses his life, for my sake and the Gospel's sake, will save it.

Now, you know what can happen? And like I was saying, I've stood out on the streets before, before I'm gonna preach, and I don't know if it's just, I think it's a spiritual thing, where I've just felt everything in me saying, go home.

And that's what I'm up here trying to convince everybody to do is get out on the streets and preach open air. I'm just... We're to be salt and light. And to be salt and light, salt only impacts anything if it touches it.

We've got to be in contact with the world. And one of the things, you see, the excuses can be land, it can be oxen, it can be a wife. But you know what sometimes the excuse is? You know why we don't talk to people about Christ?

Just fearful insecurity. That type of thing of the unknown. We fear men. The truth is we don't like to be disliked. God has made us social creatures. We like to be loved. We like to be liked. We don't like rejection.

And one of the things that you find out about Luke 14 is you've got a lot of people making excuses that don't want to come. So when you go out, there's a lot of resistance to the message. And we know it.

Anytime you try. You know when I first got saved, I thought this was so new. This was marvelous. Like I was this nominal Catholic and this broke in on me. And I thought this is unbelievable. I can't even believe I walked for 25 years of my life.

And there were actually people around me that were born again. And how did I not know that? This is fantastic. I thought, oh, all my friends, all my family, they're going to want this. They're going to all line up for this.

The only reason that they don't have this is because they were just like me. They were in the darkness. And I began to tell them all and you know what happened. I'm hoping my dad was saved. Three of my children have come to know the Lord.

But it's amazing. It's amazing. You know, I think I can see the faces of people in my mind right now standing on the streets of Manchester. And you know, Sam gave me these speakers so I'm mobile and I can walk along and I can track the people.

And I'm looking at their face. And I began to talk to them about Christ. And you know, they smirk at each other. They roll their eyes. And I say, this is an amazing thing that we would come down here and offer you paradise.

We offer you eternal life. And you roll your eyes and you mock this. There will come a day when this will be the most important thing you could imagine. But what happens? People laugh, they sneer, they swear, they shout, they spit.

Boldness in a Threatening World

And brethren, hear me. Right now, I'm not policing any blame or pointing any fingers. But if I'm honest, I mean, I can fall, pray, to just selfishly grasping and not wanting to be in uncomfortable situations.

Grasping for security, grasping for comfort. Brethren, well, you know what can happen? We can just become soft and we can become fearful. You know what happened in the early church? Listen, that desire for boldness, what happened?

You know what happened. Look, Lord, look upon their threats. This world can be a threatening place. There's no question about it. Look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak the Word with all boldness.

And when they had prayed, two verses later, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken and they were all filled. All, all the ordinary Christians with the Holy Spirit. And they all continued to speak the Word of God with boldness.

Brethren, we live in a threatening world. But listen, you have been called out of the darkness to be the proclaimers of the excellencies of Christ. And so we need to make this a priority. This can't be secondary.

Evangelism as the Church’s Primary Responsibility

Ordinary Christians, listen to this. I came across this some years ago when I was doing a series on hyper-Calvinism. But Ian Murray said, in many churches, there has been a real increase in knowledge and a resurgence of Calvinistic belief has occurred across the world.

But revival of doctrine has scarcely been matched by a revival of evangelism. So, all the books on Calvinism are selling. But people are not more aggressively pursuing souls as they come to the greater light.

That's Ian Murray's perspective. I grabbed a copy, old used copy of John Stott's book on evangelism called Our Guilty Silence. Listen to what he says. In a day when the church's evangelistic mission was never more urgent, it would seem that the church's evangelistic enterprise was never more lacking or ineffective.

One might almost say that the contemporary church is better equipped for every other task than for its primary responsibility. What can happen is, one of the reasons that we can ask to be excused is because we actually convince ourselves that it's not the primary task of the church to carry out the great commission.

The primary responsibility of making known the gospel of Christ and winning others to Him. The church, when it is true to its calling, cannot be a silent church. Now, you know when it gets scary? It's when you start quoting Jim Elliott or C .T. Studd.

Now, you've probably all looked at that. That's tame. That's the refined element of C .T. Studd. Studd and Elliott and others had very little use for a contented, sleepy, apathetic church. And if you read anything of them, you know.

Our ears are almost too delicate to hear Studd, but I'll give you a dose. We shout onward, Christian soldiers, marching on to war. And then, and then we whisper, I pray thee have me excused. And you know, when I came across that, I thought, ah, he's put the same bent on Luke 14 that I have.

It's the servants asking to be excused. This is back to Studd. Christ's call is to feed the hungry, save the lost, call sinners to repentance, not to build and furnish comfortable chapels, churches, cathedrals at home, in which to rock Christian professors to sleep.

But we are to capture men from the devil's clutches and snatch them from the very jaws of hell and make them into an almighty army of God. Too long have we been waiting for one another to begin. And sometimes that's the excuse.

Well, I'm waiting for them to start. I'm waiting for our pastors to lead us. I'm waiting for this. The time for waiting is past. The hour of God is struck. In God's holy name, let us arise and build. We will dare to trust our God.

We will venture our all for Him. We will live and we will die for Him. And we will do it with His joy unspeakable, singing aloud in our hearts. And some of you know the story of Hudson Taylor. You remember when he visited Brighton, England, down on the South Coast?

And he sat in a church gathering that was basically the size of this. It says that there were maybe 1 ,000 Christians there. Here's Taylor with a burden for souls, just pulsing through his veins. He looked around at the Christians.

What did he see in that day? They seemed to him self-satisfied. It was intolerable to him. Pew upon pew of prosperous merchant, shopkeeper, bonneted wife, neatly dressed children, content, smug. He seized his hat.

And you know what he did? He went out and walked the beach. He left unable to bear the sight of a congregation of 1 ,000 or more Christian people rejoicing in their own security while millions were perishing for lack of knowledge.

Refueling the Church for Outward Mission

Brethren, we don't want to be the smug ones. We want to be able to come together, but brethren, there's a reason to come together. There's a reason to sit under preachers, to be equipped for the work of ministry.