One thing that has to be remembered is patience. God is the one who saves people and changes hearts. We should definitely correct in love but also realize that if we tell someone the gospel that doesn't mean they will accept it immediately. People should be able to ask questions without being forced to accept the gospel. If they feel comfortable enough then maybe they will hang around long enough for the Word to work in them and they actually believe and get saved. Someone is not going to accept salvation because it is demanded of them. They are more likely to hear because of patient love and compassion combined with God's words.
We also need to remember that everyone that belongs to a denomination does not necessarily agree with everything the denomination holds, just like everyone who goes to a church doesn't necessarily agree with everything their pastor says.
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Very good, Beloved! Your touching upon sowing and reaping. What has been missed, too often, is that there is also a tilling of the soil. This job belongs to those called "prayer warriors": they are just as important as the preachers and the evangelists:
"...others have labored, and you have entered into their labor." We must all be sensitive to the work that we are called to do: not everyone is called to reap what many others have sowed...although it is the labor that outwardly shows the labor spent.
Not many want to sow, for it is a lonely task: not many sowers are required. And tilling the ground is a thankless job in the eyes of men:
"...but your Father who sees in secret, will reward you openly." The tiller just smiles when he hears someone he has prayed for, say that so-and-so talked to him about Jesus , and he received the Gospel that saves! And the preacher goes out into the field day after day, just planting seed. Then he goes to another field, and another. Then he hears that that neighborhood, or that hamlet or city, that he left a month or a year ago just up and received the Word preached.
Yes. People look upon the handsome or pretty face; the masculine or feminine body; the heavy or slender hands, etc. The outward appearance: and do not consider the heart that is always working: always pumping blood to the lungs and to the brain:
never stopping for a day off, or even break. The most important part of the body is hidden: and the most important part of the Church is also hidden. No one thinks about the prayers or the tears that go into preparing a teaching or a sermon.
Very good, Beloved.