Need for Preaching
Once there was  a seven-year-old boy who went to Disneyland with his parents, but with all the  excitement of going on all the rides, he was separated from them. He was having  such a wonderful time that it was quite a while before he realized the  predicament he was in. At first he thought he could find his way back to his  parents. But, after a time, it finally hit him. He had no idea where he was  going or how to get there. He was lost, really lost.
The same is true of  people who have not found the Truth. They may not know it yet, because they may  still be having a wonderful time, but they are lost all the same. Sooner or  later it's going to hit them that they don't know where they are going or how to  get there.
Two things were  necessary for the boy to be reunited with his  family.  First he had to recognize his  condition. Second, someone had to show him where he could find his  family. The same is true with our preaching. Jehovah's "draws" those whose heart condition is  right. And as Jehovah's Witnesses, we are commissioned to show them the  Truth.
Romans  10:13 For “everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.” 14  However, how will they call on him in whom they have not put faith? How, in  turn, will they put faith in him of whom they have not heard? How, in turn, will  they hear without someone to preach? 15 How, in turn, will they preach unless  they have been sent forth? Just as it is written: “How comely are the feet of  those who declare good news of good things!”
16 Nevertheless, they did not  all obey the good news. For Isaiah says: “Jehovah, who put faith in the thing  heard from us?” 17 So faith follows the thing heard. In turn the thing heard is  through the word about Christ. 18 Nevertheless I ask, They did not fail to hear,  did they? Why, in fact, “into all the earth their sound went out, and to the  extremities of the inhabited earth their utterances
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