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“I Want to Be a Soul Winner”
“For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them” 1 Corinthians 9:19. In the movie version, based on the WWII story of conscientious objector Desmond Doss who saved 75 men on Hacksaw Ridge, the combat medic, exhausted and abandoned by his infantry company for dead, powerfully cries out, “Just one more, Lord.” Paul describes his preaching of the gospel that “necessity is laid upon me.” Are you similarly compelled? How often we sing, “I want to be a soul winner for Jesus every day …,” but do we mean it? Perhaps, we’ll speak with a lost person who happens to walk through the doors of the building on a Sunday morning or hand a tract about the church to a family from the neighborhood that attends a benevolence event. But every day? Paul’s compulsion made it so that everything he did “in word or deed” was done “in the name of the Lord Jesus.” Is what Christ has done for us through the gospel also convict us that we are “entrusted with a stewardship”? Does our necessity to evangelize also make us willing to “become all things to all people that by all means [we] might save some”? Do you want to be a soul winner for Jesus?
