Recently in a Gospel meeting the speaker encouraged those present to invite our friends to church so they could be taught the old old story. While there are other implications from this statement it got thinking "are we saved through the Church?..." What saith the Scriptures? "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek." (Rom 1:16) The avenue of our salvation comes from the Gospel! Our denominational friends would try to lead us to believe that we must use every kind of ploy we can use to keep people to "Church" but through-out the New Testament it is made clear that our salvation comes individually, just as does our faith (Rom 10:17) When we begin to neglect our responsibilities in teaching the lost and try to shift it to the "Church", we open the door in our lives for any number of things that the individual Christian can do to be shifted to the work of the "Church". Brethren, I am all for inviting all those we meet to come and learn of God and his son, but we should never for one minute forget our own need to teach the lost! "How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?". (Rom 10:14) Are we doing all that we can to teach the lost or do we think the "Church" should do it?

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