Gospel Commitment Is Essential
1 Corinthians 9:19-27
August 16, 2020
This morning we come once again to a service
That I have come to view as vitally important to our growth as a body.
It is a service we set aside to remind our students and teachers, And really all of us, of the central calling that we all have
As ambassadors for Christ.
We often quote that verse I love in 2 Corinthians 5:21.
2 Corinthians 5:21 “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
We love that verse because so clearly expresses us to the gospel message
Of Christ’s perfection which is imputed to us
And Christ’s atonement which was accomplished for us.
We should also then be familiar with the context of that verse.
2 Corinthians 5:18-21 “Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
This reality that through Christ we have been reconciled to God
Is a message that has been entrusted to the church.
• God is saving men.
• God is reconciling men.
• And God has “committed to us the word of reconciliation”.
• We are “ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal
through us”
If the church doesn’t share the gospel the world never hears it.
There is no way that the church should be confused
As to her purpose here on earth.
WE ARE HERE FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE GOSPEL.
While at our recent youth camp we studied 6 essentials.
• Salvation is Essential
• The Deity of Jesus is Essential
• The Humanity of Jesus is Essential
• Personal Holiness is Essential
• Church Involvement Is Essential
• Gospel Focus Is Essential
I would remind the youth, and introduce the rest of you to the point of that last essential.
Romans 1:14-17 “I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. So, for my part, I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome. For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “BUT THE RIGHTEOUS man SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.”
The point was simple;
• We are under obligation for the purpose of the gospel.
• Because only the gospel leads men to salvation.
We pointed that out to the youth in light of
THE CURRENT DISTRACTIONS that are occurring in our world.
The church gets easily distracted from her primary function.
Some have bought into the POLITICAL NARRATIVE
They think the church’s duty is to bring about political and moral change.
• Politics and boycotts and voting and things of that nature become the main
focus.
The problem of course is that even if we win that battle and completely turn the world to the right men are still separated from God and will die in hell.
• They may enter hell more moral
• They may enter hell more conservative
• They may enter hell more descent but they still enter hell
Jesus never dealt with the political climate of His day.
• When asked about yielding to Caesar Jesus told us to “render to Caesar that
which is Ceasar’s”
• He never once attacked the Roman political structure as if to turn their pagan
culture through political means.
Many Christians are distracted thinking that the redemption of the world will come through political reform and it will not.
Others in our day have bought the SOCIAL NARRATIVE
They think the church’s duty is social justice.
• Many of the “cutting edge” and “relevant” churches have totally bought the social justice and “Black Lives Matter” movement.
• Pastors, even the Southern Baptist Convention and its leaders are spending a great deal of time apologizing for past injustices and seeking to maintain social credibility in our world.
But yet again this is not the church’s main fight. Certainly we oppose unjust oppression in every form, but our mission on this earth is not to rid the world of injustice.
• A man may be freed from his injustice and still go to hell.
In Jesus Day
• 1 out of 5 men in the Roman empire in Jesus’ day was a slave (1 out of 3 in the city of Rome) and Jesus never touched it.
• Jewish Law permitted slavery even among fellow Jews and Jesus never addressed it.
• In fact Jesus’ own followers began to refer to themselves as DOULOS
• While Jesus healed many, there are plenty of times recorded where Jesus left even though crowds of sick wanted Him to stay and work miracles, but He left to preach the gospel.
Many Christians are distracted thinking that the goal of the church is social reform and to make this world a better place to live,
But this world is a sinking ship,
We’re looking for a new heavens and a new earth where justice dwells.
And that is really what we focused on
For the 6th and final segment of youth camp with our kids.
To remind them that the primary function of the church is to preach the gospel to sinners. Only the gospel leads men to reconciliation with God.
GOSPEL FOCUS IS ESSENTIAL
This morning I’m adding a 7th to that list.
It’s sort of a continuation of youth camp.
This morning I would add:
GOSPEL COMMITMENT IS ESSENTIAL
What’s the difference between gospel focus and gospel commitment?
• Gospel focus emphasizes our primary target and objective.
• Gospel commitment emphasizes the cost of fulfilling that objective.
And for that we look this morning to the book of 1 Corinthians.
We don’t have time for a complete history of the Corinthian church.
It will have to suffice this morning just to say that
THEY HAD MORE PROBLEMS THAN ONE CAN IMAGINE.
• Division over who followed which preacher
• Sexual immorality in the form of incest
• Lawsuits among brethren
• The visiting of prostitutes
• Divorce
• Drunkenness during the Lord’s Supper
• Denial of the resurrection
• Just to name a few…
The end result was that their collective sin
And distraction with worldly pursuits
Was making them ineffective
In their primary mission of preaching the gospel.
Consider Paul’s criticism of their lawsuits.
1 Corinthians 6:5-6 “I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you one wise man who will be able to decide between his brethren, but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?”
• Your selfish greed might be causing you to win a lawsuit and obtain your financial justice, but in doing so you are destroying your gospel witness.
• So you’re trading your mission for money.
Much of this book is Paul straightening out the focus of the Corinthians
So that they might embrace their role as a church
Which is to be a light in darkness.
• That they might throw off their hindrances and distractions…
• That they might sharpen their focus…
• That they might get busy about the purpose for why they are here…
It’s an extremely important study for the church even today.
We pick up in chapter 9 verse 19.
If you’ll notice in the passage we read to begin the sermon
Paul is comparing mission work to an ATHLETIC COMPETITION.
• In fact, 6 times Paul uses the word “win”.
• He is talking about winning a competition.
• He also makes sure that the Corinthians focus in on “the prize” for winning.
• He calls it “an imperishable” wreath.
Now, Paul makes this analogy,
NOT because we are in competition with one another
Regarding who can win the most lost souls or something like that.
That is NOT a competition, Paul already made it clear.
1 Corinthians 3:5-7 “What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one. I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.”
Paul is not suggesting that we are in some sort of numbers competition
With one another or with the church down the street.
Rather, Paul is making the comparison of
The personal cost required to compete.
Paul looks at an ATHLETE TRAINING for his race
And sees a definite analogy for the church to understand and embrace.
The analogy is this:
SELF-SACRIFICE IS REQUIRED TO SUCCEED IN MISSION.
Success in our mission will require personal sacrifice.
And you see that reality all throughout this text as well.
• (19) “I have made myself a slave”
• (20) “I became as a Jew”
• (21) “I became as…those without law”
• (22) “I became…weak”
• (23) “I do all things…”
• (27) “I discipline my body and make it my slave…”
All of those statements scream of personal sacrifice
For the purpose of a higher goal.
We see that in athletes.
Athletes will make time sacrifices, pain sacrifices, monetary sacrifices, dietary sacrifices, even social sacrifices in order to obtain the prize of athletic success.
And Paul says that if an athlete will do that for a perishable wreath
Then certainly the church should do that for the sake of the gospel
HE IS CALLING FOR COMMITMENT TO THE GOSPEL.
He is calling for us to pay the “death to self” cost of
Putting aside your own personal rights and freedoms for a higher cause.
In short, will you sacrifice your rights for the sake of the gospel?
That is the question,
• And I don’t mind telling you that this passage has convicted me as hard as it
may convict anyone
• Because I am a red-blooded American who loves democracy and hates it
when other people try to make me do what I don’t want to do.
• This text has forced me to evaluate my priorities, I hope it does you as well.
We’re going to break the text down into 3 points and follow Paul’s athletic analogy.
#1 THE COST TO PARTICIPATE
1 Corinthians 9:19-22
I just want you to think about an athlete for a moment
And the various costs they have to pay to be able to enter competition.
For the last few weeks HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES have been attending practices.
• They aren’t mandatory unless you want to play the sport.
• It is the cost for entering.
We may think of OLYMPIC ATHLETES or COLLEGE ATHLETES
• Who cannot accept payment for their services but must compete as amateurs.
We may think of PRO ATHLETES
• Who are given a list of medications that are off limits (not necessarily illegal) if they want to participate.
• NBA players are asked to live in “a bubble” so they can compete.
• MLB players are subject to daily COVID testing.
Other costs are implied and unwritten.
• For example one could ask Colin Kapernick about the cost of political expression if you want to compete
• Or Dez Bryant or Antonio Brown about the cost of social media expression like twitter if you want to compete.
If you break the rules (written or unwritten) that’s fine.
You have that right as a human being.
You just won’t be able to compete.
NOW THIS IS WHERE PAUL IS COMING FROM.
It is the cost to enter the competition.
In this case, it is the cost of SECURING THE OPPORTUNITY
To proclaim the gospel to someone else.
(19) “For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may win more.”
Now, this isn’t the beginning of his thought, not by a longshot.
In chapter 8 Paul answered a specific question about rather or not the Corinthians could eat meat sacrificed to idols.
To summarize, Paul said this.
• (8:4-6) – FACT, idols aren’t real, it’s just meat, you are free to eat it.
• (8:7-12) – HOWEVER, not everyone has that knowledge and by eating you
might wreck the faith of your brother who thinks it is a sin.
• (8:13) – DECISION – though I’m free to eat, I’ll never eat again if it offends my
brother.
Then Paul addressed paying the preacher.
• (9:1-14) – FACT, paying your preacher is the right thing to do and all preachers
have the right to expect it.
• (9:15-18) – HOWEVER, I will never require it because I don’t want people to be
confused about my motives.
So you understand Paul has already spent a great deal of time
Discussing the issues of personal liberty.
And he has unequivocally said that
Personal liberties should be readily sacrificed for the purpose of ministry.
And that is where he continues now, as it pertains to evangelism.
(19) “For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may win more.”
Paul describes himself as a volunteer slave.
• I had my freedom, I had my rights.
• I intentionally gave those up and became a slave.
WHY WOULD YOU DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT!?!
“so that I may win more.”
The story is told of two young Moravians who heard of a slave owner who bought a small island and determined that he would never allow a missionary to ever set foot on that island. No preacher will ever come here, he said.
Two young Moravians sold themselves to that man as slaves and then used the money he paid for their lives as their passage fare out to the island so that they could be a gospel witness among the slaves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravian_slaves
This is the idea Paul has in mind.
It is the cost of securing the opportunity to preach the gospel.
And he goes on TO CLARIFY what he means.
(20-22) “To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law though not being myself under the Law, so that I might win those who are under the Law; to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some.”
Paul there gives 3 different groups of people.
• The Jews (those under Law)
• The Gentiles (those without Law)
• The Weak (those confused about the Law)
And in all 3 instances Paul said
He “became as” them in order to “win” them.
I should say that in the late 90’s and early 2000’s this verse became the battle cry for “Contextualization” and “Culturally Relevant” missions.
A misapplication of this passage opened the door
For all manner of godless behavior in the church,
Which even lingers until today in the forms of pragmatic entertainment.
I’ve heard of all manner of peculiarities performed by churches
Under the guise of being all things to all people.
The most recent was a church in Houston that moved in an MMA fighting arena into their sanctuary in order to “attract” the lost.
That is NOT at all what Paul is talking about.
He’s talking about forsaking his own personal rights and freedoms
In order that he might secure an opportunity to preach the gospel.
Paul knows, if he goes and preaches to a Jew, but does so while eating bacon that Jew isn’t going to hear a word he says.
So, even though Paul is no longer under the Law or dietary restrictions,
He willingly obeys them so as not to offend the lost Jews
So that he might be able to witness to them.
In Acts 15 we have the Jerusalem council where Paul argued vehemently AGAINST making Gentiles receive circumcision.
Paul won and the official statement of the church was that
Gentiles did not have to be circumcised.
And then we go to the VERY NEXT CHAPTER where we read:
Acts 16:1-3 “Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. And a disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek, and he was well spoken of by the brethren who were in Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted this man to go with him; and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.”
Why would Paul do that?
Because his goal was not to be an offence to Jews.
• Paul refused to allow circumcision to be a part of the gospel message.
• But once the church officially clarified that it was not, Paul willingly participated
just to keep from offending Jews.
• He wanted the opportunity to preach the gospel.
Other times Paul would preach to Gentiles who didn’t have law
• And Paul said in verse 21 to them he would act “as without law, though not
being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law.”
• What do you do Paul when a Gentile man asks you into his home?
• What do you do when that man offers you camel meat to eat?
• What do you do when that man tells you he bought this meat in the
market where it had been sacrificed to demons?
All of those things would have been personally detestable to Paul.
So what did he do? HE ATE IT!
BECAUSE HIS OTHER OPTION WAS TO NOT EAT OR NOT ENTER
AND NEVER GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO PREACH.
Or some people were “weak” and so Paul said in verse 22 “to the weak I became weak”
• That would be like a Gentile who was trying convert to Christ who was
superstitious about the meat sacrificed to demons.
• Or a Jew converting to Christ who couldn’t get past unclean meat.
Paul would simply go along with his preferences
So that there was no offense and he could preach the gospel.
But the goal was always the same.
TO PREACH THE GOSPEL SO THAT I MIGHT WIN SOME.
And Paul knew that insisting upon his own personal rights
Was counterproductive to gaining that opportunity.
AND THAT IS THE FIRST POINT.
There is a cost involved in gaining an opportunity to preach the gospel.
You want me to tell you some ways we lose our opportunity?
How about engaging in political arguments on social media?
• Hey, I’m as passionate as the next guy, and I’ve done it too.
• But if the lost man you seek to reach is a democrat and all he ever sees from you his your politically biased posts do you think you really have an opportunity to share the gospel with him?
We never get the opportunity with some people because
We let our own ideas of personal liberty and right get in the way.
We complain at the waitress because our food took too long, and our opportunity for the gospel is shot…
We gripe at the coach because our kid didn’t get to play, and our opportunity for the gospel is shot…
We chew out the manager of the store because he made me wear a mask, and our opportunity for the gospel is shot…
Do you see how insisting upon our own personal rights and privileges
is actually counterproductive to our mission?
WELL, PREACHER YOU MAY NOT CARE ABOUT THE FREEDOMS THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED ON, BUT I DO, AND I’LL FIGHT FOR THEM.
• Believe me, I care.
• I have a short fuse when people start trying to make me do something that
doesn’t make any sense to me.
• Personally, I don’t understand 99% of this COVID stuff going around.
But the question is NOT do you value freedom.
The question is do you value your freedom
More than your obligation to preach the gospel?
And tomorrow if you have to give up one or the other
Either your personal freedom Or your gospel opportunity
WHICH WILL YOU GIVE UP?
Paul said, “There is no personal freedom more important
Than the preaching of the gospel.”
I’ll become a slave if I have to.
That is the cost to entering the race.
#2 THE COST TO COMPETE
1 Corinthians 9:23-25
IN A SPORTING ANALOGY we would simply speak here about the continual work that is required to compete well.
We all know that when a young man gets drafted to play a professional sport that his work isn’t over. He will have to continue to work if he wants to succeed.
Jerry Rice is often referred to as the G.O.A.T.
• He grew up as the son of a brick layer and spent his days catching bricks from
his dad.
• Once pro he did the same workout 6 days a week.
• Before lunch – 2 hours to run the hill (a 5 mile vertical trail)
• He would stop halfway up to run 10 – 40yd sprints.
• After lunch he spent 3 hours on weights where he would do 30 sets of 21
different lifts (630 reps)
• Then came football practice.
• After practice he would stay late and catch 1,000 extra footballs every day.
• And that is not to mention the mental grind of game film and other mental work.
For Jerry Rice it wasn’t about gaining the opportunity to compete,
IT WAS ABOUT COMPETING TO WIN.
And that is Paul’s next point.
• Sacrificing self in order to gain the opportunity to preach the gospel is certainly essential.
• But once you gain the opportunity you must continue to sacrifice so that you can SEIZE that opportunity.
Notice what Paul says:
(23) “I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.”
THERE AGAIN WE HIS COMMITMENT.
“I do all things for the sake the of the gospel”
• Should we talk about his dangerous travel?
• Should we talk about his frequent hardships?
• Should we talk about his persecution?
• Should we talk about his relentless preaching?
Jerry Rice had nothing on Paul in the way of personal sacrifice to obtain a goal.
Now just for clarity sake,
Paul says “I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.”
“fellow partaker” is SYGKOINONOS (soo-koy-no-nos)
It means “participant with others in anything”
Paul ISN’T SAYING I do all this so that I can be saved.
Paul says I do all this because
I want to participate WITH the gospel and NOT AGAINST it.
You understand that don’t you?
Imagine if Jerry Rice signed to play football and then spent his days eating chocolate covered donuts and playing X-box.
Jerry’s coaches would certainly be all over him for wasting his opportunity.
• They’d talk about his wasted potential.
• They’d grieve his lack of effort.
• They would call him his own worst enemy.
AND SO MUCH OF THE TIME THAT IS CHRISTIANS.
We proclaim the gospel, but we live in such a way
As is counterproductive to the message we preach.
Instead of participating with the work of the gospel, we actually work against it.
• This is when we call men to turn from sin while we live in it.
• This is when we call men to deny self, but we refuse.
• This is when we preach the gospel to our child when then watches us lose our
temper at the other driver on the road.
Paul’s point is that self-sacrifice is still required
Even as you run the race and preach the gospel.
And he gives another analogy.
(24-25) “Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.”
Paul talks about men like Jerry Rice who sacrifice so much of their lives to obtain a goal.
• Does anyone in here know how many Super bowls Jerry Rice won?
• Does anyone know when the last one was?
• Does anyone know how many catches or yards he has?
• (Perhaps an enthusiast does, but not the average person)
• Does anyone remember who won the World Series 3 years ago?
• Who was the fastest downhill skier in the last Olympics?
We think all the sacrifice put in to obtaining those goals
And yet the reward is so temporary and so fleeting.
Paul actually told Timothy:
1 Timothy 4:8 “for bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.”
But Paul says here that we actually compete for
An “imperishable” prize.
He also told Timothy:
2 Timothy 4:7-8 “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing.”
Peter said:
1 Peter 5:4 “And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.”
And here’s the point.
If a man would sacrifice so much of his body to obtain a temporary prize how much more should we to obtain an eternal one?
AND TO THAT PAUL GIVES THE ADMONITION
(24) “Run in such a way that you may win.”
Do what it takes to win!
• Don’t just run, run to win!
• Don’t just be in the game, compete well in the game!
• Even if you have to sacrifice to do it.
Don’t live your life in opposition to the gospel you preach.
• If the gospel calls men to self-denial then deny yourself.
• If the gospel calls men to carrying the cross then carry the cross.
• If the gospel calls men to following Jesus then follow Jesus.
Don’t get distracted with earthly rights
And privileges and riches and comforts.
Put those things away and work with the gospel, not against it.
DO WHATEVER IT TAKES
Not only to secure the opportunity to preach the gospel,
But also to make your preaching successful.
That’s the cost of participating That’s the cost of competing
#3 THE COST TO FINISH
1 Corinthians 9:26-27
If we are to take the sports analogy one more time
We talk about things like the “4th quarter” or what my coach used to call “gut check time”.
• It’s that moment when you are forced to dig deep to finish.
• You’ve sacrificed to get to the game…
• You’ve sacrificed to play the game…
• And now you have to dig even deeper to finish it.
It takes focus, it takes endurance,
It takes a willingness to lay it all on the line for the victory.
And this was certainly Paul.
(26-27) “Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.”
“disqualified” is the Greek word ADOKIMOS
It was a word used of testing metals or coins. It means “to not stand the test”.
It has the idea of failing under intense scrutiny.
The word is often rendered “disqualified”.
And here we speak of people who disqualify themselves as a gospel witness by reason of their bad choices and selfish lifestyle.
It is those who run, but don’t finish.
• They ultimately care about themselves
• And the gratification of their own flesh
• And the fulfillment of their own personal rights and freedoms
• And it causes them to kill their witness.
2 Timothy 2:5 “Also if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules.”
Easy targets here are TV evangelists who get entrapped
With greed or sensual lusts that implode their ministries.
But in reality it is a danger for us all.
• It is when we preach Christ and then blow it with our moral choices.
• Instead of crucifying the flesh, we cater to it, and our gospel witness is the casualty.
That is why Paul says he remains focused on the finish line.
(26-27) “Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.”
• He’s not out there just running all over, he has a plan, he has a goal.
• He’s not just flailing his arms in the air, there is a target.
He understands that victory isn’t pure random coincidence.
• He’s not going to accidentally win this race.
• He’s not going to accidentally win someone to Christ.
How many times have you accidentally shared the gospel with someone?
It’s going to be the result of precise effort.
• He is going to have to crucify the flesh and get it out of the way.
• He is going to have to refuse to serve his personal interests and focus on the gospel.
• He is going to have to put aside his own rights and be committed to the mission.
And if he does that day after day after day
Then over time he will win the race.
THIS IS THE CALLING.
It’s not just being gospel focused, it’s being gospel committed.
And so the question.
WHAT IS YOUR PRIORITY?
• Is it your goal just to secure your rights?
• Is it your goal just to satisfy your desires?
• Is it your goal just to make sure no one makes you do what you don’t want?
• Is it your goal just to live comfortable?
Or is it your goal to fulfill your obligation to preach the gospel?
Well then it’s going to require sacrifice.
• There’s a cost to enter the race.
• There’s a cost to run the race.
• There’s a cost to finish the race.
The calling is that you and I would be committed enough to pay that price.
That is my encouragement not only to the teachers and students
But really to all of us this morning.
And this morning, I think we have the perfect gift/reminder for everyone.
This morning all of our students and teachers are going to get a mask.
• We’re doing this because I hate wearing a mask.
• I hate it when a store tells me to wear a mask.
• I hate it when people look at me sideways for not wearing a mask.
(Don’t get me wrong, I don’t care if you do, I just hate it when people try to make me.)
And so for me wearing a mask is a big issue
Of submitting personal rights and freedoms.
But the question hits me.
Would I be willing to wear a mask so as not to offend someone who thinks wearing a mask is important?
These masks have been printed to say:
“I’ll even wear this mask, for the sake of the gospel” 1 Corinthians 9:19-27
We’re going to give one to all the kids and teachers.
We ordered 100 so there’s extras if you’re like me and need this reminder.
But this morning I simply remind you that we are here for one purpose
And that is to preach the gospel and NOTHING, (not even personal rights and privileges), should stop that from happening.
