
By Dick Brogden
Who have I led to the Lord recently?
I immediately qualify my response: planting churches is hard. Others, better than I, have labored for years without seeing conversions. My role is to just pick stones out of the field. I do not have the gift of evangelism. Many have come to the Lord when I preached. Believers need discipleship, too. I have to disciple my children, and the list goes on….
But who have I led to the Lord recently?
I led Muhsin to the Lord back in Sudan. Now I travel and train others. Muslims have come to the Lord through missionaries I mentored. National leaders and local ministers I mobilized and trained are leading Muslims to Jesus. All that is well and good, God be praised…
But who have I led to the Lord recently?
I am tired. I am busy. I am not in one place long enough. An itinerant responsibility is not conducive to local evangelism. I have to spend so much time in meetings, emailing, administrating, solving people problems, mobilizing, developing others. My language fluency is not what it should be. I give out scores of Bibles. I witness in taxis. I give out evangelistic materials at feasts and to friends and neighbors. I pray for the lost multiple times a week…
But who have I led to the Lord recently?
It’s too much pressure to ask the question. Who am I to judge? Only God can convert a soul, change a mind, unveil the gospel. Results can’t be forced. Obedience and faithfulness is the chief required task of all laborers. Yes, ’tis all true…
But who have I led to the Lord recently?
O Lord Jesus, You alone the God who saves,
Yet hear this anguished plea.
Please use me as I am, so weak,
To lead some soul to Thee.