Question:
Shouldn’t an assembly be very concerned about saving the lost? Should we have an outreach ministry to try and reach lost souls?

Answer:
Very definitely. The Apostle Paul commends the Thessalonian assembly: “From you sounded out the word of the Lord…in Macedonia and Achaia” (1 Thessalonians 1:8). No doubt, the exhortation to Timothy, “Do the work of an evangelist” (2 Timothy 4:5) may be applied to every believer in Christ and thence to every assembly of believers. Many assemblies or individual believers are engaged in outreach ministries such as mailing gospel tracts to the bereaved (from obituaries) or to the general population (from telephone books), having home Bible studies or neighborhood Bible classes for children, door-to-door gospel work, and visitation or services at jails, missions, hospitals, and nursing homes.