What do we do in a world that knows the gospel?

We Christians often think that we need to propagate the gospel more, that we need to get it out there, we need to write more books, put up more advertisements, hand out more tracks, talk to more people, rent bigger stadiums, and go put the gospel in the public eye.

The problem is, in the world today, almost everybody knows that "Jesus Christ died on the cross to save us from our sins". I think we ought to realize that the world knows the gospel very well. They have heard it a thousand times over. But it isn't make a dint of a difference. So what's new?

The Kingdom of Christianity is like a farmer who has a plot of land. Every year, he tears open a packet of seed, broadcasts it on the field, and returns to his house. Sometimes the ground is soft and ready. Sometimes, the rain comes and waters the seed. But other times, the environmental factors just aren't right. Out of, say, a hundred seeds the farmer sows each year, he can get a minimally got response of a harvest of two, three, maybe even twenty stalks of wheat.

The field is the world. The farmer is Christians and his sowing technique is evangelism today. We just keep "doing evangelism". We do it over and over again.

The problem is that we are sowing the seeds, but we aren't preparing the soil. We aren't tilling the ground. We're waiting for the harvest, that's for sure, we aren't willing to put our backs to it. And if we do put some effect, it's mostly ineffective, because there's only one way to do it right - by doing it according to the Book. Notice that the farmer did not read the instructions on the packet of seeds!


The solution: Do it according to the book - live from the other side of the cross.