Becoming All Things To All Men

This past Friday some dudes from the church went out into the city of Philadelphia to "live as the homeless". It was quite an experience in a couple of ways. First, it took us two hours to find the first homeless man(that might be some kind of a record). Second, believe it or not homeless do sleep like normal people, and most of them we found were asleep. Some on benches, some on the sidewalk, some in amazing contraptions that would make Bear Grylls proud. Needless to say, we could have packed it in after the two hours and said to ourselves this is pointless. Fortunately, we were a little deranged so kept up the pursuit.
After getting home and recovering, I began to think of the words of Paul when he says, "...I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings."
As Christians, we need to take this attitude when sharing our faith with others. It doesn't do us any good if we give up because we feel we are not reaching anybody. We must constantly be in pursuit of the prize, so that we can reach others. Even if it is just one person we reach, that person we reach may be the next great revivalist who can reach multitudes of others. Or that person you reach may turn his life around and be saved from destruction. As final word I will share a quote,
"The battle has already been won, it is only a matter of how many soldiers that share in the victory that we need to worry about."