When Stan first talked to us about “going out among the lost,” we asked him, “Shouldn’t we start first with the people in our relational network who are lost?” He said that while we don’t want to neglect our relational network, if we wait to “go out among the lost” until we’ve shared with family and friends, we’ll inadvertently train ourselves not to “go out among the lost.” In other words, we won’t be in the habit of going out each week. Plus, he said, we’ll run out of family and friends to talk to quickly anyway.
