August 9

Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. (Ephesians 5:14)

If the lost are to be reached by the gospel of the Son of God, Christianity must be more aggressive than it has been in the past. We have been on the defensive long enough; the time has come for us to enter on a war of aggression.

When we as children of God wake up and go to work in the vineyard, then those who are living in wickedness all about us will be reached; but not in any other way.

You may go to mass meetings and discuss the question: "How to reach the masses," but when you have done with discussion you have to go back to personal effort. Every man and woman who loves the Lord Jesus Christ must wake up to the fact that he or she has a mission in the world, in this work of reaching the lost.