Let Us All Get Out of Our Comfort Zones

I know I have written a message that is like this one. But as I was sitting and painting today, I knew I had to go over this message again.

As I was studying one morning the following passage, which as spoken to me before, stood out to me once again. It is also a passage that I believe every Christian needs to pay attention to.

When it comes to sharing the Gospel, I am willing to use what ever avenues that are available. The following passage tells me to go and look for people, look for people that need to hear the Gospel, the Good News of Jesus Christ.

The passage tells us to go to places that you may not think of. Go and look for those needing to hear the Gospel in unusual places, not just the usual places you would go.

Luke 14:23

And the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the highways and along the hedges, and compel them to come in, so that my house may be filled.

Go out into the highways and along the hedges and compel them to come in. The internet opens a lot of highways to be able to reach out to vast numbers of people.

Sharing the Gospel is what every Christian is called to do. It isn't just for those of us who have graduated from a Bible College or a Theological Seminary.

Acts 1:6-8

So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?”   He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority;   but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”

This passage has always been part and parcel of the whole message. Luke 14:23 and Acts 1:8 are telling us to Go and Go into all the world, look in all the areas, in the hedges, down the highways and more.

To me it is your neighbours who have been forgotten about. It is the old man who sits by himself in the coffee shop. It means looking down the back roads for those who people ignore.

We are to go to the remotest parts of the earth. What are we doing to spread the Gospel? Where are we spreading the Gospel? Are we getting out of our comfort zone?

We grow, personally and our church family will grow when we get out of our comfort zones. I push us to go beyond self-imposed limitations.

All too many people leave the job of “going into all the world” to the person behind the pulpit. From experience I can say to you, the preacher, pastor, teacher can not do the whole job, that is why the Master in the passage from Luke sent his servant out, the Master needed help.

We don't go alone when we do go out into the highways, hedge rows and to the ends of the earth, we go with the Holy Spirit and the power of God.

Folks, the day is coming when there will be no more time to do it. We can't procrastinate any longer. We must go.

I use this blog as part of my calling. I share the Gospel willingly where ever I go.

I challenge you to “Go out into the highways and along the hedges where you will be Jesus' witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth, and compel them to come in, so that my house may be filled.”

Will you answer the challenge and go?