Alan Naumann

“Mark Guy Pearce spoke a wise and true word when he said: “Unless our faith saves us out of selfishness into service, it will certainly never save us out of hell into heaven.” Christian believers who have received salvation as a free gift from God through Jesus Christ are deeply concerned about the material and spiritual welfare of their fellow human beings. Having gone in through the door of salvation, they hurry out through the door of service to look for others and (in the words of Jesus) “compel them to come in” (Luke 14:”
― John R.W. Stott, What Christ Thinks of the Church: Preaching from Revelation 1 to 3