Outreach: key verses

Are we willing to leave our comfortable homes to share our faith with others?

1. Mark 16:15, Matthew 28:19 Go and preach in all the world. We can't reach everyone, but we should try. Lift your vision beyond those close at hand and convenient.

2. II Timothy 4:2 Preach the word. Don't wait till you 'feel like it', or till it is convenient.

3. John 4:35 Don't say, 'I will obey God in four months.' If you won't act now, you probably never will.

4. Luke 10:2 Pray for workers. Too many people want to just be 'supporters', when what we need are workers. There are no job shortages in the kingdom of heaven.

5. Galatians 6:9 We will eventually reap if we don't give up. Don't expect instant results. It is a hard world. But faithful results, day after day, will be rewarded by God.

6. Ezekiel 3:17-19 If you don't warn the people, their blood is on you. Our job is to warn them. What they do with the truth is between them and God.

7. Luke 15:4-7, Matthew 18:11-14 Find the lost sheep. Don't wait for God to bring them to you. Leave the comforts of the 'fold' and get out there on the streets to find them.