Sam Shoemaker, the great Episcopalian preacher and evangelist, used to say, “Every man is like an island and if you will row around him several times you will find a place to put in.” In every person’s life there is a problem or a need or they live near one. If you can identify that need and begin to talk to them about that need and how God and Christ can meet that need, they will be interested in what you have to say. If we are always talking about the church and the activities of the church, then we will discover that many of them do not feel a need for the church and they are not the least bit interested in the church.
