What are the limits of preaching the Gospel of Christ?

The answer

The Church never ceases to preach the Gospel of Christ all over the world. The believer’s work of preaching God’s salvation is not limited to a specific region.

“The Church which Origen sees and loves is ever the ensemble of Christ’s disciples scattered over the face of the earth. That great society can never be confused with the rest of the human race, although it never ceases to attract those who have need of belief and although the anxious crowds of those who are hearkening to its call surround it as with a radiance.”¹⁰⁴¹

From the very beginning of the church, the gospel message was proclaimed by the faithful wherever they lived or traveled. In his treatise against Celsus, Origen writes, “Christians do not neglect, as far as in them lies, to take measures to disseminate their doctrine throughout the whole world. Some of them, accordingly, have made it their business to itinerate not only through cities, but even villages and country houses, that they might make converts to God.”¹⁰⁴²

Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty