Keep a Gospel Perspective

Always remember that the sole purpose for the church on this earth is to save perishing souls.  No program in the church is truly effective if it fails to lead toward that goal.  If we have programs merely for the sake of programs, we are a dismal failure.  If we help people stop smoking, or cope with stress, or eat better, and do not lead them to Jesus Christ, then they will be healthy, well adjusted people in the Lake of Fire one day!  Their good health will help them live a few nanoseconds longer in the fiery lake!  

Many have a particular burden to share health or coping techniques, or prophecy, or doctrinal subjects such as the Sabbath, but they sometimes forget to keep the proper perspective.  Jesus Christ received into the heart as Personal Lord and Savior alone can save!  This must be the ultimate goal of the gospel worker, and indeed all converted Christians!  The church needs to ask this question about every small group, social, educational, humanitarian, or children’s program: “Does this program have a specific plan to lead people to accept Jesus Christ as Lord?”  If the answer is no, the program, as good as it is, needs to be changed to make it evangelistic in nature!