Finding People Where They Are

Based on John 1:1-18
If I proclaim the gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an obligation is laid on
me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel! For if I do this of my own will, I have a
reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with a commission. What then is my reward?
Just this: that in my proclamation I may make the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full
use of my rights in the gospel.
For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might
win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the
law I became as one under the law (though I myself am not under the law) so that I might win
those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (though I am
not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law) so that I might win those outside the law. To
the weak I became weak, so that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people,
that I might by all