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.
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
All great and precious things are lonely.
The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around like blocks of wood - and that the end results will be no different than if people had voluntarily chosen the same action
I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.
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