Thursday, April 7, 2011

What is a Soul Winner?

By definition: a soul-winner is one who directs others to the Lord Jesus and  leads a person to following the Master in direct to His desires.  Let us look for a brief moment at I Corinthians 3:6,7 and I Corinthians 4:2.  Remember that we are "His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus..."  (Eph. 2:10a) 

We only are able to lead others to Jesus by the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives, but we are not the Holy Spirit--we cannot make the transition occur.  I Corinthians 3:6, 7 states that it's "God who gives the increase."  So, in actuality, we cannot claim anything or give any one person the praise, but God (I Corinthians 3:7). 

Example:  If a mother brings her children with her and the said children go to the nursery, Beginner Church, and Junior Church--plus the mother walks the aisle and is lead to the Lord by an altar worker, not only does the altar worker have a part in the reward, but the preacher does, and the workers in al the avenues where her children were...see.  It's a joint effort.  It takes a lot of work to get people to see the gospel, because we are finite beings, but the Great Infinite God can illuminate anyone's eyes, mind, and heart to see the light of the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ.  Some people take longer for the light to come on, not because our God is less great, but because man or woman, boy or girl, is so stubborn and may have had more of an influence by the world or worldliness.

It's not our objective to "judge" or be a detective to try to manipulate the change in a person:  that's still God's domain.  Our role in the transference is to just bring the meal (gospel) to the table (from the Bible); we are to be His gospel-bringers; bringers of the "good news"; the shepherds did it the night Jesus was born; the woman at the well did it in Samaria; Andrew brought Simon to Jesus; and countless missionaries, and Christian workers have brought the light of the glorious gospel to shine in the midst of a sin-cursed world---will you do this fantastic job too? 

Remember you are commanded to--Matthew 28:19, 20.  Are you obeying the Master?  I challenge you today to be a gospel-bearer of great things to lost, confused, sinful people who live very complicated lives because they have never given their lives to Jesus.

---Pastor Fryer

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