Two weeks later, Novak ran into Jack Osbourne, Ozzy’s son, at a different event. Jack approached Novak and shared that his father not only cherished the Bible but had been showing it to people who come to the house. “I just want you to know that had a greater impact on my dad than you know…it’s on his bedside table,” Jack said.
There was a time when Novak would have written off people like Osbourne because of how they were portrayed. “But we have to remember that everybody is worthy of hearing the gospel because we’re all sinners,” Novak said. “God sees us one of two ways: saved, not saved; born again or lost. And we have to take our platform, use our platform, and try to tell as many people as we can before it’s eternally too late.”
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“It doesn’t matter [the size of your] platform,” he added. “God’s given you a platform for a specific reason, for a specific person. And if it’s just for one person, isn’t that one person worth it all?”
“So my encouragement is, don’t wait until you’re reading someone’s obituary,” Novak said as he concluded. “The time to pray, the time to do something with sharing the gospel is while that person is still on this earth, still breathing, and has an opportunity to accept Christ.”
“It should just be an encouragement to us to go, don’t wait until it’s too late, because right now, the next time you see your friend may be the last time you ever see them. That might be the last opportunity you have,” said Novak.
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