Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?
Interpretation
This quote questions the importance of sharing a message multiple times with those already informed when many are still uninformed.
Oswald J. Smith highlights the urgency and responsibility of spreading important messages, such as the Gospel, to those who have yet to hear them. The quote suggests that we should prioritize reaching those who are unaware over reiterating in front of those already knowledgeable, emphasizing the need for action and outreach in the pursuit of sharing valuable teachings.
In practice
During a church sermon to encourage evangelism.
God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him; He brings me into a relationship with Himself where I hear His call and understand what He wants me to do, and I do it out of sheer love to Him... When people say they have had a call to foreign service, or to any particular sphere of work, they mean that their relationship to God has enabled them to realize what they can do for God.
Let me say that it is not a question of us getting more of the Holy Spirit, but rather of the Holy Spirit getting more of us.
Oh my friends, we are loaded with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing and winning the lost is almost entirely neglected.
The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.
I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.
I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.
In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.
Every individual matters and has a role to play in this life on Earth.
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