--------------- OUR DAILY BREAD Monday, June 26, 1995 --------------- READ: Matthew 22:1-10 BRING THEM IN! "Compel them to come in, that my house may be filled." -- Luke 14:23 Some Christians have gotten the idea that if they erect a beautiful building, put up a sign, and place an ad in the newspaper, the unsaved will flock to church. But it just doesn't work that way. There's an impelling "go" in the gospel that makes us responsible for our friends and neighbors. We must reach out to lost sinners and bring them in. In D. L. Moody's day, it was a common practice for people to rent a church pew. One Sunday morning, 19-year-old Moody marched down the aisle with a motley crew of society's outcasts trailing behind him. He had rented four pews and was determined to fill them with those who were spiritually needy. Having taken the Savior's "Go" personally (Mt. 28:19), he literally "went out into the highways and gathered together...both bad and good" (22:10). Don't make the mistake of believing that Jesus' command to go applies only to missionaries in faraway places. All of God's children are to share the good news of salvation. What a tragedy it would be if our own neighbors never heard the gospel because we never told them! Ask the Lord to place a burden on your heart for a friend or loved one who is lost. Then go and bring them in! -- Richard W. De Haan Who'll go and help this shepherd kind, Help Him the wandering ones to find? Who'll bring the lost ones to the fold Where they'll be sheltered from the cold? ------------------------------------- THOUGHT FOR THE DAY ------------------------------------- We must go to sinners if we expect sinners to come to the Savior. ------------------------------------- THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Psalms 97-99 ============================================================= Our Daily Bread, Copyright 1995, used by permission of Radio Bible Class, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49555, USA. ODB files are being archived at ICLnet by arrangement with Radio Bible Class. RBC is presently developing its own servers and we look forward to RBC's official presence here on the internet in the near future. Written permission to distribute must be obtained from Radio Bible Class. RBC provides a variety of Bible resources, which are free of charge. RBC is not funded by any group or denomination, and support comes voluntarily from its Members and Friends. Write for more information, or call 1-800-598-7221. Thanks to Ken Foster for establishing the email list from which this copy of Our Daily Bread originated. A subscription is also available from the "ODB List" which may be subscribed to directly. Send a blank email message, with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line, to: odb-request@sptekwv14.wv.tek.com. RBC publications are also available at The Gospel Communica- tions Network: http://www.gospelcom.net/rbc/odb/. - ICLnet ============================================================= ------------------------------------------------------- file: /pub/resources/text/Our.Daily.Bread: db950626.txt .