Henry David Thoreau once sat at Walden Pond watching a lineman string wires down the railroad. “What are you doing?” he inquired. The lineman replied, “We are building a telegraph system so the people of Maine can talk to the people of Texas.” Thoreau commented, “What if the people of Maine have nothing to say to the people in Texas or Texas people have nothing to say to them?”
What is the message of evangelism? What do we have to say to the lost world?
We have the right to lift our voices in triumphant confidence and to assure people who repent and receive Christ that their sins have been forgiven. This is what our world needs to hear today. The world does not need a better philosophy. It needs a Savior. It does not need a new morality; it needs new life. It does not need reformation; it needs regeneration. Through Jesus Christ that can take place.