God’s Plan for Planting – Romans 10:14-15
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” —Romans 10:14-15
9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. . 13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. —Romans 10:9-10, 13, 17
We
23 And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. 24 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. 25 For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself? —Luke 9:23-25
“The way to beautiful feet is not through a pedicure but through proclamation!” - Tony Merida
“The word ‘preaching’ translates kerussō, a term that denotes the act of preaching, proclaiming, or heralding a message.” - Daniel Doriani
People
“Evangelism is one of the greatest privileges that God gives to the church…God could have preached his Word from the clouds without any human participation, but he chose the means to accomplish it, chiefly, the foolishness of preaching. God gave us the unspeakable privilege of participating in his majestic program of redemption, which he planned from the foundation of the world.” - R. C. Sproul
But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. —2 Corinthians 4:7
People
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” —Romans 10:13