Hash tag winning. Global missions and personal evangelism is all about winning.

Winning is the word that Paul loves to use as you can see in a text like 1 Corinthians

chapter 9 verses 19 to 22, their Paul wrote this quote,

for though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all that I might win more of them.

To the Jews I became as a Jew in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one

under the law, though not being myself under the law, that I might win those under the law.

To those outside the law I became as one outside the law, not being outside the law of God,

but under the law of Christ, that I might win those outside the law.

And to the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. In quote,

So what does Paul mean when he uses win five times and four verses?

Here's Pastor John to explain Paul's word and why it matters for our evangelism today.

Now the word win in English is ambiguous. You can win a prize and you can win an argument.

What does Paul mean by win? Win all these people. If you win a prize you gain it,

you got it, I have it, mine. If you win an argument you defeat somebody.

What Paul's meaning, there's no doubt what his meaning is, it's on the face of it,

but it's even more clear in the original language, he means I win a prize. I gain a prize.

How do I know that? Well it's just obvious from the context I think, but

test me on this, the hundreds of you who know your Greek,

Keredinau is the verb for win. It's almost always except for two places here and one other place.

It's almost always translated, gain like Matthew 1626. What will a prophet and man

be? Games the whole world and forfeits his soul. That's Keredinau, the word win here, or Philippians 3, 8.

I count everything as rubbish in order that I might gain Christ. That's the word win here.

...