Today, in an effort to be sophisticated and contemporary, many Christians have stopped trying to persuade others to follow Jesus Christ. There’s an underlying feeling in our society that nice people just don’t go around persuading other people to do things. We don’t want to offend people, appear strange, or lose our newfound status. So we do nothing about people’s eternal destiny.

I, too, have been guilty of this. At one point years ago my next-door neighbor was a young television personality. We would chat from time to time, and he even mentioned that he listened to our radio program occasionally. But I didn’t share the Gospel with him. After all, I thought, he seems completely immune to the problems of life.

Eventually, though, my neighbor changed. The joy seemed to have left his face. He and his wife started driving separate cars to work. I could tell their marriage was souring, and I felt the need to talk with him, but I didn’t want to meddle in his personal life. When I returned home from a trip abroad, I learned my neighbor had killed himself. I was devastated. I knew I should have gone to him and persuaded him to repent and receive Jesus Christ. But because of false courtesy, I didn’t do it.

Never again...never again, I said to myself. What about you?  

This is Luis Palau.