Now, of course, we understand that God is sending us to preach the gospel.
Jesus says that, so sinned are you, this is the Father sent me, so sinned are you.
But here's the reality, if you're not at a church that has soul winning times that is
sending you out and encouraging you, you're probably not going to do a lot of soul winning
on your own.
Here's the proof of that.
Many of you understood and believed in soul winning before you remember this church, but
you probably didn't do a lot of soul winning.
Why?
Nobody's sending you.
You don't have a soul winning time.
We're not encouraging one another to go, and I'm the same way.
I've been at churches that didn't really have much of a soul winning program, and it's
hard to be self motivated to go out on your own, isn't it?
Many people probably were here at other Baptist churches that didn't do a lot of soul winning
and you wanted to go, you knew you should, but it's kind of hard because other people
aren't doing it.
And then you come to a church here and we not only have the soul winning times, but
in your free time you're zealous to go out and preach the gospel.
You say why?
Because you have the encouragement of a church that's backing you up and sending you out
to preach the gospel.