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Someone Told Me - Now It's Your Turn

Aug 23, 2026    Pastor Tom Smith

What if the most significant thing we ever do for another person costs us nothing but a moment of courage? This message drives us straight into that question, and it does not let us off the hook easily. At its heart, we are confronted with a simple but sobering challenge: will anyone be in heaven because we shared Jesus Christ with them? The gospel, we are reminded, is not complicated. It rests on four foundational truths -- God loves us, all of us are sinners, Jesus died and rose again, and salvation is a gift we receive rather than a reward we earn. These truths, drawn from passages like John 3:16, Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23, and John 1:12, form a framework any one of us can carry into an ordinary conversation. The Great Commission recorded in Mark 16 and Matthew 28 was not handed down to a select group of professionals. It was handed to every follower of Christ. That means us. The message challenges us to stop treating evangelism as someone else's responsibility and start seeing every encounter -- at the grocery store, in a restaurant, in a classroom -- as a potential moment where eternity intersects with the everyday. We are not asked to have all the answers. We are simply asked to be willing to say, let me tell you about my Jesus.