Axiom #24:

Axiom: The size of the audience does not correlate with the need of the audience. 

Therefore give your best every time you stand up. Jesus preached before multitudes, but the Lord also went in to at least seven homes in our record of His ministry and served before that size group. Peter preached before thousands but he also went from house to house. The largest group I’ve ever spoken before was 12,000ish but recently I spoke to an audience of 24 and one responded to the Gospel. That one was as important as the 12,000. When I stood up to preach I did not know that young college student had never heard the Gospel. You never know who is in that audience. What’s the saying: “Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.”

The fact is that you will not DO your best every time you teach or preach but you can GIVE your best. Yes there will be times when you don’t feel well, when you are exhausted, when you are frustrated, when you have self-doubt BUT stand, present, GIVE your best.

You never know the need in an audience based on the size of an audience. You never know who might be there, you never know if there is someone there who might have never heard the Gospel, you never know when you give your best before that small crowd what God might do with and through someone who is there. The most important audience you will ever preach before is the audience in front of you now! 

Be God’s person, doing God’s Will, speaking God’s Word, with God’s passion, every time you speak.

Therefore give your best every time you stand up. Jesus preached before multitudes, but the Lord also went in to at least seven homes in our record of His ministry and served before that size group. Peter preached before thousands but he also went from house to house. The largest group I’ve ever spoken before was 12,000ish but recently I spoke to an audience of 24 and one responded to the Gospel. That one was as important as the 12,000. When I stood up to preach I did not know that young college student had never heard the Gospel. You never know who is in that audience. What’s the saying: “Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.”

The fact is that you will not DO your best every time you teach or preach but you can GIVE your best. Yes there will be times when you don’t feel well, when you are exhausted, when you are frustrated, when you have self-doubt BUT stand, present, GIVE your best.

You never know the need in an audience based on the size of an audience. You never know who might be there, you never know if there is someone there who might have never heard the Gospel, you never know when you give your best before that small crowd what God might do with and through someone who is there. The most important audience you will ever preach before is the audience in front of you now! 

Be God’s person, doing God’s Will, speaking God’s Word, with God’s passion, every time you speak.