“‘Not called!” did you say? “Not heard the call,” I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father’s house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face — whose mercy you have professed to obey — and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world.
– William Booth
1829 – 1912
Christ Alone Wyoming 
What a piercing, convicting plea! Why so few speak with such concise eloquence this day? We certainly get asked to “invite a lost neighbor to church” once or twice a year. But seldom – ever? – the wrenching description of hell OR the Savior.
As my pastors have been teaching us lately, the indicatives (I prefer the term, declaratives) are not true about us, we cannot obey the imperatives. If the indicatives are true about us, by God’s grace we can and should obey the imperatives.
May I be willing to obey – though I be a most unprofitable servant.
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