Can I Be Saved If I Never Evangelize?

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Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Will a professing Christian go to hell if he never shares the gospel? Pastor John gets to the heart and offers practical suggestions for growing in evangelism.

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0:00.0	Good Monday, and thank you for listening to the podcast.
0:06.9	As Christians, we love the good news that Jesus Christ has abolished death and brought
0:12.6	life and immortality to light through the gospel.
0:17.0	That's second to the 110.
0:20.0	This salvation is a great gift to us, but it's not the greatest gift.
0:25.1	The gospel is precious to us because the greatest prize of the gospel is that we get God.
0:34.1	We get God.
0:37.4	He becomes our father.
0:39.7	He becomes our all-satisfying friend.
0:42.7	He becomes our protector and our provider.
0:46.6	He is the prize of the gospel.
0:51.7	We saw that back in APJ 1079 and 1604, precious point that we will return to next time on
0:57.7	Wednesday, actually, in APJ 1934.
1:03.1	But first today's question, because with such wealth in the good news, surely we should
1:08.0	find ourselves willing and eager to share this gospel with everyone we come into contact
1:14.5	with, right?
1:15.5	Well, no.
1:16.9	We often don't.
1:18.6	We have a lot of opportunities to rise when we say nothing.
1:21.3	And so we're left inside attention of our own making, claiming to love something that
1:26.2	we hesitate to speak about with others.
1:30.4	And bringing into question the authenticity of our own love.
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