God is concerned with gang members, radical bikers and even terrorists. Through us He is able to reach their hearts with His love.

In every church I pastored, we reached out to gang members. In one particular gang our church led 23 out of 25 of them to Christ. I baptized most of them.

Also, we reached out to bikers and led a number of them to the Lord. In Vancouver, British Columbia, we became aware of an anarchist restaurant. Thats right! It was where revolutionaries met to make plans to overthrow governments worldwide.

I took some of Gods people to this restaurant on a regular basis to share Christ with these marginal characters, the hardest of hard soil.

The churches where I pastored led several homosexuals to Christ. We also worked with transvestites, prostitutes and prison inmates. Every month in downtown San Francisco we led men and women on skid row to Christ.

In Vancouver, we heard of refugees flying into the international airport without any kind of immigration documentation. We immediately began to reach out to them. To our joy, not only did we lead many to Christ, but eight of the 10 men also sensed a call into the ministry. They realized they had been saved both physically and spiritually and wanted all their people to hear the Good News too!

What a challenge it is when a church takes seriously Christs command. He assures His people, in Jeremiah 23:29, that His Word is like a hammer, and like fire, breaking the hardest heart, and refining the worst of sinners. There is nothing too hard for Godtherefore we can share fully and lovingly with every personand never do it with a sense that this one is too hard for God.

Remember the last command of Jesus to His disciples: And He [Jesus] said to them, Go into all the world and preach [and publish] the gospel [the good news] to every creature [of the whole human race] Mark 16:15.

It was not a suggestion; it was a command, and it included every person in the entire world. Careful study of each word of this command reveals that no person is to be excluded. Human reasoning will never be a substitute for obedience, as this scripture demonstrates.

Throughout the New Testament, the heart of God is revealed: the Lordis not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9). Every person is to be included in our effort to share Gods good news.

Human reasoning may say, But not everyone will listen. Not everyone will respond. Why go to those whose hearts are so hard? But we know that with God all things are possible (Matthew 19:26). God will give us the strength, courage and wisdom to break through even the hardest of hard soil to plant His seed of Truth.

The author of Experiencing God, Henry Blackaby is president of Henry Blackaby Ministries. Visit www.henryblackaby.com for more information. Bible references are from The New King James Version.