Open Door for the Gospel

God is the one who opens doors for the gospel. Open doors are opportunities where God opens the heart of people to receive the Gospel. We must pray and open our eyes for these open doors.

In Acts chapter 10 God revealed to Peter that there was an open door in Caserea through the vision of the sheets and then by telling him to go with the three men that we're looking for him.  When Peter arrives at Caserea he finds a house full of people ready to receive the gospel.

In chapter 11 the Jews who had been persecuted and scattered throughout Phonecia, Cypress and Antioch went preaching the gospel. At Antioch the brothers were bold enough and visionary enough to preach the gospel to the Gentiles. Many Gentiles came to Christ which revealed an open door. The Jerusalem Church sent Barnabas who saw this great open door of Grace and then he went and got Saul from Tarsus and both of them kept preaching and picking fruit at Antioch.

In the first open door Peter found it by a heavy dose of special revelation from God. This is similar to when Paul had the vision of the man from Macedonia saying "come and help us". In the second case in Acts 11 the disciples found the open door by simply being obedient to the command to preach the gospel.

So we must also find open doors by either being obedient and preaching the gospel where we feel led to preach it and perhaps find an open door or praying that God through some special Revelation or circumstance show us where there is an Open Door and then we must run through it.