We live in a culture that is drifting further and further from the heart of God, and in the middle of that drift, you are called to remember the primary mandate of your life as a Christian is to win souls and build the family of God.
Even as you see encouraging signs that leaders are openly acknowledging God, defending life, honoring Israel, and taking meaningful steps to dedicate this nation back to Him, you must keep your own assignment clear. Everything else—your gifts, your calling, your prophetic insight, your ministry, your success—means very little if you are not actively participating in bringing people to Jesus.
You need to understand that soul winning is not a side topic in Scripture. It is central to your identity and your assignment. The Bible says in Proverbs 11:30 that the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and that whoever wins souls is wise. When you win souls, you are walking in true wisdom, because you are aligning your life with what matters most to God: the eternal state of human beings.
Heaven and hell are not religious metaphors; they are real destinies. People are not just making lifestyle choices; without Christ, they are dead in sin, separated from God, and facing eternal judgment. You are surrounded every day by people who are heading toward eternity without Jesus, and whether you feel it or not, you are responsible before God for what you do with that reality. Even if leaders seek to honor God publicly and enact policies that reflect biblical values, the deepest transformation of a nation still happens one soul at a time through people like you.
To understand your role, you need to go back to God’s original intention. In Genesis 1:27–28, God created human beings in His image, male and female, and gave them a cultural commission: be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and take dominion. At its core, that commission was God saying, “Build Me a God-family in the earth.” His plan was never for you to build a religious club or a closed, comfortable community; His plan was for you to partner with Him to see His family expand in every nation, every ethnicity, every social level, every personality type, every background.
When Jesus came, His Great Commission—“Go into all the world and make disciples”—was a restoration and continuation of that same assignment. You are part of that assignment. You are not a spectator to it; you are a participant, a conduit, a carrier of the kingdom of God. So even while we are working diligently to protect religious freedom and liberty and bring God back into the public square, you must personally embrace your mandate to extend God’s family wherever He places you.
Matthew 28:16-20, “Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with youalways, to the very end of the age.”
That means your life cannot be divided into “sacred” and “secular” compartments. There is no such thing as a purely secular zone for you anymore. You are in this world but not of it, and you have been placed in your specific sphere—your job, your neighborhood, your school, your relationships—as a pulpit. Jesus modeled this for you. He did not spend most of His time in religious buildings. He spent it with tax collectors, sinners, the broken, the marginalized, and the confused. He met people at wells and dinner tables and village roads. In the same way, you need to begin to see your workplace, your gym, your grocery store, your social media, your kids’ activities, your daily routines as your pulpit.
You are called to stand between the dead and the living everywhere you go. While we’re working diligently to realign national life with God’s purposes, your personal pulpit remains the primary place where heaven touches earth.
To live like this, you must reject the version of Christianity that is centered on your comfort and psychological well-being alone. Much of what passes for preaching now is about self-help, personal success, and emotional relief, but the living Word of God is first a convicting word before it is a comforting word. You need conviction because conviction leads to transformation. You must see that without Christ you were hopeless and helpless, and that outside of Christ, every person you meet is in that same condition. When you grasp that, you stop treating the Gospel as an accessory to your life and begin to treat it as the very reason you are on the earth.
Even when you see righteous laws passed, godly judges appointed, or public acknowledgments of faith from your leaders, you cannot outsource conviction and conversion to government; it must flow through the Church, and through you.
Your story is central to this calling. You may have gone through trauma, abuse, abandonment, addiction, confusion, moral failure, and seasons where you did not see one Christian hand reach out to you. You may have come out of deep darkness, broken relationships, sin, shame, and hopelessness. You might even look back and remember that it was in your most sinful or selfish moments that God arranged a divine encounter: someone with a Bible, someone speaking words that cut through your pride, someone reading Scripture that pierced your heart and melted your resistance. Those details of your journey are not something you need to hide; they are part of your testimony, and your testimony is one of your greatest tools for soul winning. No administration, no matter how devoted to God, can legislate the power of your personal testimony; that is something only you can release.
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You are a living miracle. You might not always feel like one, and church life can sometimes convince you to clean up your image and hide your past, but the truth is that your very existence in Christ is a supernatural act of God’s mercy and power. Every abuse you endured, every move you survived, every time you almost lost your mind, every destructive decision you made, and every rescue moment God orchestrated—all of that can be redeemed for His purposes. None of your pain has to be wasted. When you allow God to use your story openly, you become a living epistle, a letter written not with ink but by the Spirit of God. You become visible proof to others of what God can do. As God raises up leaders nationally who are unashamed to name the name of Jesus and dedicate the nation back to Him, He also raises you up locally as a flesh-and-blood testimony of His saving power.
At the center of your message to others must always be the Gospel itself. Your kindness, your listening ear, your empathy, and your willingness to meet people at their point of need are essential, but they are incomplete without the clear message of Jesus Christ.
The Gospel is simple and specific. Every person is a sinner, separated from God, spiritually dead, and unable to save themselves. Christ alone is the solution. He came as God in the flesh, lived without sin, was crucified on an old rugged cross, buried in a borrowed tomb, and rose again on the third day. He shed His blood because the wages of sin is death, and instead of you dying, He died in your place. There is no other way to the Father. No philosophy, no teacher, no religious figure—Buddha, Confucius, Muhammad, or anyone else—can reconcile a person to God. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no one comes to the Father except through Him.
When you share the Gospel, you must be clear about that, even if the culture calls it narrow or offensive. It is encouraging when you see national leaders boldly declare that this nation belongs to God and take public stands that reflect biblical truth, but the sharp edge of the Gospel still has to come from your mouth into the life of each person God places in front of you.
At the same time, you must carry God’s heart, which is filled with compassion, not contempt. When you look at people—confused children, suicidal teenagers, women who have had multiple abortions, men trapped in addiction, people tangled in sexual sin, individuals struggling with their identity—you must not stand in judgment over them from a place of superiority. You need to be able to say, in your heart, “There go I by the grace of God.” You are not called to minimize sin, but you are also not called to dehumanize sinners.
God looked at you in all your depravity and mess and loved you. In the same way, when you lift up your eyes and look on the fields, you should feel what He feels: grief, compassion, burden, and an urgent desire to see them rescued, not destroyed. Even as you thank God that those in authority are, in many ways, resisting darkness and publicly calling the nation back to Him, you must personally weep over those who are still bound and lost, refusing to see them merely as “issues” in a culture war, but as souls Jesus died for.
To live as a soul winner, you must cultivate compassion, prayer, and action.
Compassion begins when you stop seeing people as problems and start seeing them as souls. Prayer begins when you fall on your face before God, like Moses did, and cry out for mercy over a rebellious, hurting generation. You are not called to stand at a distance and cheer for judgment on people; you are called to intercede, asking God to have mercy on your nation, your city, your schools, your leaders, and the confused and broken around you.
As you see leaders make decisions that honor life, support God’s covenant people Israel, protect religious freedom, and invite God’s blessing over the land, you should thank God and keep praying for more mercy, more wisdom, and more righteousness at every level of government. Action begins when you take the “fire from the altar”—the presence and power of God you experience in church, in prayer, and in His Word—and carry it back out into the places where the plague is raging. You cannot stay at the altar and build a monument to your experiences. You must go out, like Aaron did, and stand between the dead and the living so that the plague is stopped.
You have to recognize that God never works in the earth without partnering with human beings. He is always looking for someone who will stand in the gap and make up the hedge.
You may look at your life and think you are unqualified: maybe you see yourself as too broken, too ordinary, too flawed, too uneducated, too young, too old, too sinful in your past. But look at the people Jesus chose. If you were handpicking the first church leadership team, you probably would not choose Peter, who denied Him, or Judas, who betrayed Him, or Thomas, who doubted, or the others who failed Him under pressure. Yet Jesus did. God is not seeking perfect resumes; He is seeking surrendered hearts. In the same way that He can take imperfect leaders and still use them to advance His purposes, He can take your imperfect life and use you to advance His kingdom in the lives of individuals.
For you to be effective, you must also be rooted deeply in the Word of God. One sermon a week will not sustain you in the kind of culture you live in. Your children can spend eight or nine hours a day being taught values that oppose Scripture, while you might only spend forty minutes under the Word on Sunday. That imbalance is not sustainable. You need to saturate yourself in Scripture, memorize it, meditate on it, and allow it to shape how you think, love, and respond. You should treat the Word not as optional inspiration but as necessary food.
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There may come a time when access to Bibles or Christian content is more limited, and you need the Word hidden in your heart so that you can feed others and stand firm. You study not just to have verses to quote, but to deeply know the love, character, and purposes of God.You must still take responsibility to write the Word on the tablet of your own heart.
This mandate to win souls cannot simply rest on pastors and leaders. A shepherd does not produce sheep; sheep produce sheep. If you belong to Christ, you are not just a consumer of sermons; you are a reproducer of disciples. If you and others like you fully embraced this calling, your church would not have empty seats. You would be constantly reaching out, inviting, sharing, praying, and leading people to Jesus in your daily life, not just on a scheduled “outreach day.” Soul winning is not an event you check off; it is a lifestyle you carry. Every encounter is an opportunity: one co-worker at a time, one neighbor at a time, one classmate at a time, one family member at a time. While you thank God for national days of prayer, public dedications of the country to God, or moments when leaders stand and ask for His mercy, you must live every day as your own “day of dedication,” offering yourself afresh to be used to reach the lost.
**I CHALLENGE YOU TODAY TO GO OUT AND WIN SOMEONE TO THE LORD.
Practically, you can start by writing 5-10 specific people you will commit to pray for daily, asking for divine encounters and open doors to share Christ. As you pray, you begin to look for moments to listen to their hearts, to identify with their pain, and to share both your story and God’s story.
You do not need to know fifty Scriptures. Even four or five clear verses about sin, salvation, the cross, resurrection, and confession of Christ can carry the power of God into a conversation. Your part is to open your mouth; God’s part is to pierce the heart.
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When you lead someone to the Lord—when you watch their eyes change and feel the presence of God touch them—you will experience a joy that is “addictive” in the best way. That joy can become a fire that keeps you pursuing souls for the rest of your life.
The same God who can use a leader to shift the direction of a nation can use you at a kitchen table to shift the direction of a single eternal soul.
You also need to see that every part of your design and history is intentional. You are not random. Your personality, your quirks, your “big nose” or “little hands,” your temperament, your skills, your background, your trauma, your education, your profession—all of it has been woven under the sovereignty of God to position you to reach certain people that others cannot. A neurosurgeon, a teacher, a coach, a businessperson, a stay-at-home parent, a student, an artist, a blue-collar worker—each of these roles opens doors into different worlds.
You carry something specific into the arena God has placed you in. The question is not whether you are gifted; the question is whether you will surrender your gifts, experiences, and platforms for the sake of the Gospel. Just as God can take the unique background, relationships, and influence of those in the current administration and use them on a national and even global stage, He can take your unique configuration and use you on the stage of one life, one family, one community at a time.
When you look at the brokenness of society—confused children, chaotic homes, divided politics, moral collapse, spiritual apathy—you may be tempted to throw up your hands in despair or to rage in anger. Instead, you are called to break in compassion and cry out for mercy. You are called to let God’s heart for the lost enter your own heart so deeply that you cannot remain indifferent. You ask Him, “Put Your heart in me. Let me see people the way You see them.” When that happens, you will no longer be satisfied with living a safe, quiet Christian life that never risks reputation, comfort, or convenience for the sake of the lost. You will recognize that real revival must start in your heart and overflow from your life.
Ultimately, you must keep your eyes on the cross. Jesus did not endure betrayal, mocking, a brutal beating, and a torturous crucifixion so that you could merely live a comfortable life, collect blessings, and enjoy titles. He suffered and died so that you could be saved, reconciled to God, and then become an instrument of salvation to others. When He declared, “It is finished,” the veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom, not as a dramatic symbol only, but as a real removal of the barrier between God and humanity. That act opened the way for you to come to God, and it also commissioned you to go out for God. The cross remains the foundation of your hope and the center of your message.
You will one day stand before the judgment seat of Christ. Your salvation is secured by His finished work, not by your performance. But your works will be tested, and there are real rewards—crowns of righteousness, crowns of life, and a soul winner’s crown. Every conversation, every act of obedience, every time you shared the Gospel, every risk you took for someone’s eternal destiny will matter. You do not want to stand there realizing you lived mostly for yourself while a world around you perished. You will not be evaluated on what your leaders did or did not do in office; you will be evaluated on what you did with the light, the opportunities, and the relationships God placed in your hands.
So you must decide to be intentional. You ask God to light a fire in you that does not burn out by Monday or fade by Friday. You offer Him your testimony, your pain, your gifts, your time, and your daily routines. You determine that every person you meet will encounter, in some measure, the living God through you. You ask Him for divine assignments, for open doors, for holy boldness, and for a heart that refuses to be ashamed of the Gospel. And you allow Him to mark you so deeply that your life’s priority becomes clear: you will win the lost at any cost, you will build the family of God, and you will be part of changing culture by bringing the kingdom of God to a hurting world—one soul at a time—even as you rejoice that God is also moving to turn this nation back to Himself and dedicate its future to His glory.
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