A quote I want to share to you from John Dawson, a leader in Youth With a Mission
"Have you ever wondered what it feels like to have a love for the lost?
This is a term we use as part of our Christian jargon. Many believers
search their hearts in condemnation, looking for the arrival of some
feeling of benevolence that will propel them into bold evangelism. It will
never happen. It is impossible to love "the lost." You can't feel deeply for
an abstraction or a concept. You would find it impossible to love deeply an
unfamiliar individual portrayed in a photograph, let alone a nation or a race
or something as vague as "all lost people."
DON'T WAIT FOR A FEELING OF LOVE IN ORDER TO
SHARE CHRIST WITH A STRANGER. You already love your Heavenly
Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated\
from Him, so take those FIRST STEPS IN EVANGELISM BECAUSE YOU
LOVE GOD. It is not primarily out of a compassion for humanity that we
share our faith or pray for the lost; it is first of all, love for God. The Bible says in
Ephesians 6:7-8: "With good will doing services, as to the Lord, and not to men,
knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord,
whether he is a slave or free."
Excerpt from 'Let the Nations Be Glad' by John Piper
Excerpt from 'Let the Nations Be Glad' by John Piper
