J.A. Matteson
It is fashionable today to assert souls may be won to Christ merely by observing the chaste lifestyles of the saints. While the premise may find great acceptance in the pews it is foreign to Scripture, "Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed" (1 Cor. 15:11). From Genesis to Revelation God's redemptive plan is contingent upon the conveyance of spiritual truth to the lost. Particular truths pertaining to the Fall, sin, the law, grace and the Redeemer cannot be grasped apart from human language, whether written or spoken. To maintain otherwise is to place oneself at odds with Scripture. The message of the cross has and will continue to be foolishness to those that are perishing, and it is plausible that wishing not to appear foolish some saints would prefer to employ softer means to maintain their dignity in the eyes of the world. This is folly, for again the apostle says, "How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher?....So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ" (Rom. 10:14, 17). Beloved, let us be fools for Christ's sake to the praise of His glorious Name.
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