Mere Missions

C hapter 3 THE GOSPEL: Evangelize

Key Old Testament Verse And the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the persons (Hebrew – souls) but take the goods for yourself.”

~ Genesis 14.21

Key NewTestament Verse For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. ~ Romans 1.16

Contact: Situation Awareness When I lived in South Central Los Angeles, Skid Row at one time was comprised of ten thousand homeless people in a six-to-eight block area. There were, and still are, tent and

cardboard homes stretched out along the street like a row of condominiums in the suburbs. It is a community of poor, fractured, broken, hopeless people in need of hope in this world, and in the world to come, eternal life. I saw many people from all walks of life, filled with compassion, mercy, care, and kindness, enter

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