Are you passionate about winning unsaved souls? Does the thought of unsaved souls spending eternity in hell concern you? Joel Beeke identifies a critical shortcoming of Christians today – that we have become increasingly focused on worldly activities and priorities instead of having an eternal focus, one that yearns for lost souls to be saved. This should concern us as Christians as the more we are alike to unbelievers, the more we lose our “saltiness.” This, in turn, negatively affects the impact of our witness as Christians. Jesus declared: “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.” Matthew 5:13 (NKJV) Charles Spurgeon once explained how we should instead interact with the unsaved: “If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.”

One of the greatest problems of Christianity today is that also among Christians, even real Christians, that fear of God has been diminishing. And when we desensitize our consciences, be it through the entertainment media, be it through secularization all around us, we lose our saltiness. We know Christianity no longer becomes contagious and we lose the impact of our evangelism. When our walk and our talk merge together and people can see the fear of God in our lives, smell it, taste it, see it, feel it, our witness will be powerful. And Christians who walk in the fear of God, with their conversation, with their walk of life, usually are winners of souls.

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