Telling WJD OTC 2YA

I'm reading the latest Briefing magazine, and my family had a discussion over lunch today about the feature article The Work of the Lord, and it made it clearer for all of us.

So what is the work of the Lord? What is Jesus' work, and when are we doing it?

Is being a godly doctor in Africa setting up a fantastic maternity hospital in a slum the work of the Lord? No! Anybody can do that. A non-Christian can do that.

Jesus' distinctive work is seeking and saving the lost. A doctor's work is making sure you die of something else.

That's a bit sharp – a nicer way of saying it is that a doctor’s work is caring for a person's physiology. And that is not the work of the Lord, because it is not to do with seeking and saving the lost.

My way of saying that is: it is not gospelling. (I consider saving the lost by telling them the gospel and growing the saved by telling them the gospel both as gospelling.)

Gospelling has to do with telling God's great message for humanity - that we can escape our fate (the fate malfunctioning manufactured items deserve), by WJD OTC 2YA (= what Jesus did on the cross 2,000 years ago).

I consider the Bible says that the work of the Lord involves telling that message both to Christians and non-Christians.