The Christian's #1 Priority

What should be the top priority of each and every Christian? In what part of the Christian life should we be put most of our energy? A way to answer this would be to investigate what is most important to God. I submit to you that, when you scan the scriptures, the most important thing to God is His own glory, so revealing God’s glory should be the foremost Christian activity in our lives. How do we reveal God’s glory? What does this look like? Luckily, this is not a hard question to answer. The glory of God is best expressed through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It reveals His kindness, love, holiness, justice, wrath, and sovereignty. This is why the whole theme of the Bible is God’s redemption of man. The whole reason God took on human flesh was the redemption of man. Nothing brings more glory to God than the Gospel.

So, back to our original question: What should be the top priority of each and every Christian? The answer is: sharing the Gospel. We should be about sharing the Gospel more than anything else. Sharing the Gospel should take precedence over all other activities in our lives. The Gospel should be on the tip of our tongues at all times. We should never feed a hungry person without sharing the Gospel. We should never give a cup of cold water to someone without sharing the Gospel. If we fail to share the Gospel while performing acts of kindness, we just made them the most heinous acts of negligence and betrayal. Don’t be fooled by that old saying, “Preach the Gospel and use words when necessary.” This is not biblical! Romans 10:14 says, “How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?” People need to hear the Gospel!

Taking the Gospel to the lost should be the obsession of every church, Sunday school class, youth group, women’s ministry, men’s ministry, single’s ministry, and senior’s ministry. If it is not, those ministries are utter and total failures. Ministry was never meant to be social clubs, and all too often this is exactly what many have become. Christians often seek to participate in building campaigns, men’s breakfasts, canoe trips, youth camps, Vacation Bible School, Sunday school, and other gatherings of believers more an aggressively pursuing the lost. This is wrong! We need to be as passionate about sharig the Gospel as God is about saving the lost.