Our People

One day William Booth, the great evangelist and founder of the Salvation Army, took his son, Bramwell, who was twelve or thirteen years old, into a saloon. The place was filled with men and women, many of them intoxicated. The place reeked of tobacco and alcohol. “Willie,” said Booth to his son, “these are our people; these are the people I want you to live for and bring to Christ.

Years later Bramwell said, “The impression never left me.”

Every person you meet every day—the kid behind the counter at the coffee shop, the deliveryman at the office, the jogger passing you on the street—is someone for whom Christ died. They are “our people,” the ones we should live for and bring to Christ.

Evangelism; Missions

Romans 14:14-23

Turning Points

August 2007

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