EVANGELISM:
CONCERN FOR LOST

Then there’s the poor sick world out there. I, for my part, do not want to be happy while the world perishes. Nobody loves the world quite enough. The Man who loved the world enough to die for it died for it, and Paul, the man who loved Israel enough to want to perish for Israel, cried out he wanted to be accursed for Israel’s sake. We don’t seem to have it much these days. Much of our Christianity is social instead of spiritual. We should be a spiritual body with social overtones, but most of our churches are social bodies with spiritual overtones. The heart of the Church ought always to be Christ and the Holy Spirit. The heart of the Church ought always to be heaven and God and righteousness. Those who loved the Lord spoke often one to another, and what they spoke about were spiritual things.

Psalm 126:5–6; John 3:16; Acts 2:46–47; Romans 9:1–3

The Counselor, 161.