Am I Ashamed?

I'm taking New Testament Survey online this semester. I learned something very interesting this week. 1/4 of Matthew and Luke, 1/3 of Mark and 1/2 of John are devoted to the last week of Jesus' life. Everything from His triumphal entry into Jerusalem to His brutal death to His resurrection was exhaustively recorded by the gospel writers. They each wrote to a different audience, but they knew without a doubt that everyone reading these accounts needed the Good News.

Do we treat the Gospel that way?

2,000 years later, we in North America have these accounts in their entirety, in multiple translations and formats. I know that even with all these resources, I find it scary to share the Gospel with the same urgency and passion these writers had. I long to have the attitude expressed by Paul in Romans 1:16:

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile." (NIV)

The Church should be solely focused on spreading the Good News and making disciples. That's why we're here. Whatever happens lets make this our primary goal. It's God's heart that everyone come to Him- through the Church