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When complaints came from team members or ministry supporters about the “Hollywood” use of television to spread the gospel, Oral reminded each critic, “We have to go where the people are, because they are not coming where we are.”
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It was much like the apostle Paul describing how he preached to different audiences: "And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; to them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some." (1 Corinthians 9:20–22).
In Athens, when a group of philosophers brought Paul to the Areopagus and invited him to speak, instead of referencing the unknown Old Testament, he referenced all the idols they had built to various gods. Specifically, he said, “For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you” (Acts 17:23). Paul was not afraid to use the contemporary culture around him in order to share the gospel.
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Oral Roberts wrote to his supporters in Abundant Life about his unchanging principles of walking with Jesus Christ—principles of truth that would never change in his heart or ministry. However, he reminded them that the methods to reach people for Christ are different from the principles. Over and over, he proclaimed, “I am married to the principles; I am not married to the methods.” Oral moved forward with his new television plans, continually looking for the best ways to reach people for Jesus.
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