The Urgency of the Gospel

It's been a while since I've updated. My apologies.

After my first week here, God has revealed a very important detail to me that I tend to lose sight of sometimes. That detail is: THE GOSPEL IS URGENT!

Since my arrival in France, the language barrier has been killer. Several times I have been out in the city and have attempted to communicate the Gospel without a translator, but the language barrier has made this quite difficult.

Before setting out on this journey, I was still quite unsure what God's plan was for me. All I knew was that I was supposed to go. It is becoming more clear to me that God is revealing to me the urgency of the Gospel in the U.S., where there is no language barrier, where Christianity is not illegal, and where I have no excuse for not proclaiming Christ. Recently I've been so hung up on international missions, and it has distracted me from the mission field God has put right in front of my nose.

In the U.S. we've come to a point where true, sound doctrine is being overshadowed by the likes of the watered-down, co-existent spirit of the emerging church. God has used this trip to compel me not only to be completely sold out to proclaiming the Gospel, but also to, through His wisdom and providence, promote truth to believers so that they may grow and bear much fruit.