“Who are you, Lord? ” Saul said. “I am Jesus, the one you are persecuting,” he replied. “But get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” (Acts 9:5-6)
It’s so clear in Acts 8-9 that God is sovereign over salvation. He scattered the believers through persecution to push them into Samaria to spread the gospel. He got a copy of Isaiah into the hands of an Ethiopian official, then he got a person running next to him who could explain it to him. He blinded Saul so he would have nothing but his thoughts and be ready to listen when the gospel was presented.
There’s nobody who’s beyond hope. There’s nobody who can’t be saved. God will do whatever he has to do to save whoever he wants to save! Which means sometimes God saves people we wouldn’t. We want certain groups of people to be saved, and others, not so much. But Jesus welcomes people we would never think about welcoming.
And he does it in all kinds of ways. In Samaria it was mass evangelism and big crusades. With the Ethiopian it was personal evangelism. With Saul it was a supernatural encounter. We tend to think there’s only one way that people will come to Jesus, but people are different, so God uses different approaches.
God has put different people in your life who desperately need Jesus, and none of them are beyond hope. So, what unique and creative means will you use to share the gospel with each one of them?