---If we stay silent and do not fulfill our commission to fight for the truth and the purpose of winning people to Heaven, does that mean we are fighting to win them for hell? After all, one of Satan's tactics is keeping us silent. So if we are quiet we are a part of his scheme... Right?!
---It is selfish of us to withhold the proclamation of God's amazing grace. When we do it minimizes the power of God's ability to forgive. I can speak for many people, myself included, and venture to say we have a skewed idea that we somehow are more deserving of salvation than the rest of the world. My salvation is no better than anyone elses, and it is selfish of me to think otherwise. After all "nothing any of us has done is bigger than a dead Jesus. Christ had shed his blood for me to no less degree than he did for them. We are standing at the foot of the cross and the ground was, indeed, level." It is crucial that followers of Christ remember that we, too, need a savior. Alone we don't measure up to God's standard for righteousness. So it is important that we do not keep from sharing this grace that we also do not deserve.
-- Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God."
-- Matthew 28: 18-20 "Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
