The importance of one.
Imagine being the main speaker at a big event. You spend many hours in prayer and preparation. You have your sermons laid out well and your heart is full of excitement and anticipation to see what the Lord will do. And then the day arrives and you preach your heart out. And you feel the Spirit of God telling you to give a call for any to respond and receive Jesus as their saviour. So with a heart full of both excitement and that sense of “should I?” you go ahead and give a call. It is silent and then just one solitary person walks forward. You wait and ask probingly if anyone else would want to come. But no one moves in that big crowd in front of you. I don’t know if you’ve been there but I have. It can feel pretty deflating. It can leave you with a sense of “did I do something wrong?” We hear of altar calls where thousands came forward but our own experience in that moment can seem so flat. What if some time after that event you get to find out that your single fruit that e...