Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. Our Reading titled, For the Sake of the Gospel, was written by Karen Huang. The year was 1916, and Nelson had just graduated from medical school in his native Virginia.

Later that year, he and his bride of six months arrived in China.

At the age of 22, he became a surgeon at Love and Mercy Hospital, the only hospital

in an area of at least two million Chinese residents.

Nelson, together with his family, lived in the area for 24 more years, running the hospital,

performing surgeries, and sharing the gospel with thousands of people. From once being called foreign devil by those who

distrusted foreigners, Nelson Bell later became known as the Bell who is lover of the Chinese

people. His daughter, Ruth, was to later marry the evangelist Billy Graham.

Although Nelson was a brilliant surgeon and Bible teacher, it wasn't his skills that drew many to Jesus.

It was his character and the way he lived out the gospel.

In Paul's letter to Titus, the young Gentile leader who was

taking care of the church in Crete, the apostle said that living like Christ is crucial

because it can make the gospel attractive. Yet we don't do this on our own strength. God's grace

helps us live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives

reflecting the truths of our faith.

Many people around us still don't know the good news of Christ,

but they know us.

May he help us reflect

and reveal his message in attractive ways.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Titus chapter 2 verses 1 through 10.

You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine.

Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in

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