DCLM Higher Everyday 16 May 2025 — Adapt For A Global Audience

Topic: Adapt For A Global Audience

Text: 1 Corinthians 9:18-23

18What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

19For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

20And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

21To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

22To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

23And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

Key Verse: For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more (1 Corinthians 9:19).

Message

Technology, they say, has made the world a global village. The social media has created an avenue where we can connect to people miles away from the comfort of our homes. However, some youths only employ the means to reach out to their friends or relatives by posting pictures and videos just for entertainment purposes and not for spreading God’s Word.

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In our text, we see Paul the apostle adapt to different tribes and races just to preach the gospel of Christ. Believing youths, adapt to global audiences. Billy Graham in 1950 founded the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) to spread the gospel through crusades, multimedia evangelism, etc. Also the Global Crusade with Kumuyi (GCK) is a very good example. You may not need to travel about like Apostle Paul. Through sharing posts that preach Christ, and godly fliers for online publicity, people in the uttermost part of the earth can be saved. Wisdom should be applied when reaching out to them considering their unique cultures and religious beliefs. Do not conform to their evils but rather win them to God.

Quote: Believing youths, adapt to global audiences

Challenge: Talk to foreign friends about Jesus.

Prayer for today: Dear Lord, give me the grace reach out to the lost.

GOSPEL REALM: STEPS TO SALVATION
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)