1. The Need for Peace?The Need for Peace? The Need for Food & Clothing?The Need for Food & Clothing? The Need for Loving Families?The Need for Loving Families? The Need for Civil Rights?The Need for Civil Rights? The Need for a Good Job?The Need for a Good Job? The Need to Preach the Cross!The Need to Preach the Cross! The Need for Peace?The Need for Peace? The Need for Food & Clothing?The Need for Food & Clothing? The Need for Loving Families?The Need for Loving Families? The Need for Civil Rights?The Need for Civil Rights? The Need for a Good Job?The Need for a Good Job? The Need to Preach the Cross!The Need to Preach the Cross!

2. Mark 16:15-16 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.”

3. Acts 8:5 Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them.

4. Why the Need is Not Being Met A Lack of Concern (Luke 19:10; Rom. 10:1; John 15:1-2)A Lack of Concern (Luke 19:10; Rom. 10:1; John 15:1-2)

5. Luke 19:10 For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. Some are not concerned with the Lord’s cause. Some are not concerned with the Lord’s cause.

6. Romans 10:1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. Unlike Paul, some are unconcerned for those lost and dying in sin. Unlike Paul, some are unconcerned for those lost and dying in sin.

7. John 15:1-2 I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Some are not concerned for their own welfare. Some are not concerned for their own welfare.

8. Why the Need is Not Being Met A Lack of Concern (Luke 19:10; Rom. 10:1; John 15:1-2)A Lack of Concern (Luke 19:10; Rom. 10:1; John 15:1-2) A Lack of Knowledge (Matt. 28:19; Mk. 16:15; 1 Pet. 2:9; Heb. 5:12)A Lack of Knowledge (Matt. 28:19; Mk. 16:15; 1 Pet. 2:9; Heb. 5:12)

9. Matthew 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Perhaps unaware that it is our mission to preach the gospel? Perhaps unaware that it is our mission to preach the gospel?

10. Mark 16:15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.”

11. 1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. If we don’t do it, who will? If we don’t do it, who will?

12. Hebrews 5:12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. Do we need to be taught again? Do we need to be taught again?

13. Why the Need is Not Being Met A Lack of Concern (Luke 19:10; Rom. 10:1; John 15:1-2)A Lack of Concern (Luke 19:10; Rom. 10:1; John 15:1-2) A Lack of Knowledge (Matt. 28:19; Mk. 16:15; 1 Pet. 2:9; Heb. 5:12)A Lack of Knowledge (Matt. 28:19; Mk. 16:15; 1 Pet. 2:9; Heb. 5:12) A Lack of Courage (Matt. 5:11-12; 1 Pet. 4:14-16)A Lack of Courage (Matt. 5:11-12; 1 Pet. 4:14-16)

14. Matthew 5:11-12 Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. 12 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. Remember, if reviled, we are blessed.

15. 1 Peter 4:14-16 If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a busybody in other people's matters. 16 Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this matter.

16. Why the Need is Not Being Met A Lack of Concern (Luke 19:10; Rom. 10:1; John 15:1-2)A Lack of Concern (Luke 19:10; Rom. 10:1; John 15:1-2) A Lack of Knowledge (Matt. 28:19; Mk. 16:15; 1 Pet. 2:9; Heb. 5:12)A Lack of Knowledge (Matt. 28:19; Mk. 16:15; 1 Pet. 2:9; Heb. 5:12) A Lack of Courage (Matt. 5:11-12; 1 Pet. 4:14-16)A Lack of Courage (Matt. 5:11-12; 1 Pet. 4:14-16) A Lack of Focus (Luke 16:13; 1 John 2:15-17)A Lack of Focus (Luke 16:13; 1 John 2:15-17)

17. Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon." Distracted and divided in loyalties Distracted and divided in loyalties

18. 1 John 2:15-17 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

19. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 11 Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences. 2 Corinthians 5:10-11 We All Need to be Personal Workers!