TEXT: I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season (2 Timothy 4:1-3).
The Apostle Paul’s lucid, emphatic and passionate instruction was to reach the lost. Paul set the example by giving up all that is in this world and enduring every hardship imaginable in order to reach the lost.
As documented in Operation World, Operation China and the Joshua Project well over one billion people in Southeast Asia are not only lost, but have never been given the gospel even once. It would be a blessing to pray regularly for those people and support indigenous outreaches ministering in that area.
On the American home front, it is amazing how even irreligious people become concerned about the fate of departed loved ones. The belief they were basically good and deserving of heaven is hopelessly wrong. Wherever the dead are now, they now know the truth and would desperately want someone to tell those they left behind the biblical gospel. Biblical Christians are all called to be soul winners who will tell them.
Our gifts, ministries and desire for a deeper walk should never infringe on our priority for personal evangelism (Luke 19:10).
Calvary Chapel of Richmond is a local fellowship of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. Our supreme desire is to know Christ and be conformed to His image by the power of the Holy Spirit through the continuous study and application of God's Word.
