Doin' the Wooin'

The Gospel is like a film about a King who sends his eldest son to rescue his brothers and sisters being held by kidnappers. When he reaches the hideout, he learns that the chief of the kidnappers will take him as a hostage in exchange for the release of his siblings. He instructs his siblings to go straight home and gives them a map (the Gospel) which will guide them out of the dark forest back to the King's palace

They are no more than a days journey away when they learn that the kidnappers killed their elder brother. They are in despair until the 3rd day when he appears to them resurrected from the dead.

He tells them

"I have a new and better plan. Go back to the hideout and serve the kidnappers, wooing them with love and convert them to the king. Just keep doing that until I return with reinforcements. All who repent and join you will live, all who don't, will taste the sword when I get back."

So preaching the Gospel is not about giving sermons to saved folks in air-conditioned stain-glassed Cathedrals. It's about going back through the gates of hell and doin the wooin.