1. If we believe the Gospel, it must be the Truth (else we need not believe it).
   
2. If the Gospel is true, it is the most important thing in the world (for the world was made for Christ).
   
3. If the Gospel is the most important thing in the world, we should then live accordingly ("Go, and do thou likewise").
   
4. To live accordingly, we must make the Gospel our first priority.
   
5. If the Gospel is our first priority, then it follows:
   
   • we must let nothing interfere with it
     
   • we must dedicate major portions of our time, energy, and resources to declaring it
     
   • we must neglect unnecessary things in order to pursue it with diligence
     
   • we must excise from our daily lives any activities, involvements, relationships, and pursuits that are not fruitful toward the Gospel, or detract from it
     
   • we must live in a way that exemplifies it
     
6. Hence,
   
   • we must straighten out our personal priorities
     
   • we must make the necessary lifestyle changes, immediately, to fulfill the Gospel mandate
     
   • we must "leave all" and "sell all we have and give it to the poor" (in a figurative sense) and "follow Him."

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