An excerpt from a previous post. . .
God doesn’t need people to save anyone – you, me or anyone else. It’s our Great Privilege to take the good news to the world around us. If He prompts me to share that news and I refuse, He’ll send another. If that one refuses, He’ll send another. The mission WILL be accomplished, with or without me. God WILL send a man or woman obedient to the call and souls WILL be saved according to HIS plan! As one pair of evangelical writers said so well:
“The Spirit of God uses the Word of God through men and women of God to make the message about the Son of God available to all who want to know the truth. There is no limit to the creative ways God can use to bring about this process.” – from “I’m Glad You Asked” – Ken Boa and Larry Moody
Reader, listen closely. Do you remember when you first embraced your Savior? Did not something happen inside you to cause you to desire God? Did you not somehow ‘hear’ the good news of salvation in Christ and then call out to Him for that precious gift? Are you saved, to your eternal benefit and His everlasting glory?
If so, the one who saved you now ‘sends’ you into the world to share the greatest news mankind can will ever know! That’s not my opinion. Hear some of the last words of Jesus as He prayed earnestly to the Father on behalf of his closest disciples, those 12 ordinary men, shortly before He went to the cross of Calvary.
“But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one. They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world. Set them apart in the truth; your word is truth. Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.” John 17:13-18 (NET)
How are YOU answering the call to share the Good News?
The Battle Cry 
Good afternoon. How imperative it is be be diligent about sharing the good news of new life in Jesus. Just as someone shared it with us. May we all strive to take the great commission seriously. Thanks for a needful reminder.
Blessings always in Jesus name.
timbob
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Good to see you, Tim!
I still marvel that although God doesn’t need us, He chose to use us……
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The person who is saved desires and pursues obedience. It is obedient to share the gospel.
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“. . .for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.” Phil 2:13
I hear three reasons for witnessing so far; the privilege, the mission we have been given and the desire to be obedient.
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B4B,
and what a privilege it is!
May God receive all of the Glory!
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