Preach the Gospel!

By Joe Keim

March 1, 2024

If we followed Paul's strategy, if we were more concerned about gaining souls for Christ than being right, if we stepped out of our bubble long enough to understand and learn from others, if we placed the value of others above our own ... the weak, lawless, and those under the law might suddenly desire to know more about Jesus and get saved.

Esther and I often marvel at how God has given us so many opportunities to share and preach in a variety of settings. Some settings are familiar. Some settings have been very awkward. Some settings have been brutal.

We have preached in police departments, health departments, hospitals, universities, Baptist, Amish, Mennonite, Church of Christ, Pentecostal, and Catholic churches. Some were little country churches. Some were big churches. Some were house churches, barns, in the woods, and leather and furniture shops. I value every setting we have ever had the chance to share in.

Here is why:

We have preached the gospel. It never mattered who we spoke to. We were there to tell what great things the Lord had done in our lives and how they, too, could have a relationship with the Savior who died for the world so that men, women, and children could be set free from sin, shame, and bondage.

For though I be free from all men,

yet have I made myself servant unto all,

that I might gain the more.

And unto the Jews I became as a Jew,

that I might gain the Jews;

to them that are under the law, ...that

I might gain them that are under the law.

To them that are without law...that

I might gain them that are without law.

To the weak became I as weak,

that I might gain the weak:

I am made all things to all men,

that I might by all means save some.

And this I do for the gospel’s sake,

that I might be partaker thereof with you.

—1 Cor 9:19-23—

 

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