Romans 10:15 “And how can they preach unless they are sent?”

How can preachers preach if no one sends them? No true messenger of God is an independent contractor. He understands that he is sent. I didn’t just show up one day and start my own church, or apply to become its pastor. I was called. The Holy Spirit used the members of my congregation to bring me here. In this way I have been sent to them, and they are sending me to others in this city who need to know Jesus, or need to know him better.

When you join me in this work, you are sent. Through your home church, God invites you to participate in outreach activities such as door-to-door canvasses, or educational work such as teaching a Sunday school class, or promotional work manning the booth at the County Fair. God sends you to invite your friends and neighbors to come and see. Even when you are sharing the gospel with a friend or family member in the privacy of your own home, you are doing so sent by Jesus. No Christian merely acts on his own, because the message we speak is his, not ours, and the person to whom we introduce them is him.

This isn’t God trying to limit our freedom or cramp our style. This is empowerment. This is confidence that the Lord himself is backing us up. This is the privilege and honor of representing the great God and Savior of the Universe, not just doing our own little spiritual thing. I mean, I am not that much to get excited about. Neither are you. But the Lord Jesus Christ we represents always is.            

There is just one question left: What are we waiting for? Let’s go and tell someone the good news that saves us!