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Dever’s Call to action was a perfect way to complete an exceptional book. I would do him an injustice if I closed this series without his closing:

We want to see a renewed commitment to and joy in the great privilege we have of sharing the good news of Christ with the lost and dying world around us. Only because Someone Else was so faithful can anyone be saved.

Pray that God will use you as a faithful messenger of the good news. Pray that you will see others saved from God’s good punishment for their sins because they accept the good news of Christ’s substitutionary death. And if God, in his mysterious sovereignty, ordains it not to be so with those to whom we witness, may it not be because we have failed in our commission to make him and his grace in Christ known to every creature made in his image.

This good news of Jesus Christ is crucial. Until you recognize that, I can say nothing helpful to you about evangelism. It will be no more for you than an unpleasant duty or an occasional impulse.

When the message of the cross captures your heart, then your tongue – stammering, halting, insulting, awkward, sarcastic, and imperfect as it may be – won’t be far behind.

As Jesus said, “Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks” (Matt 12:34).

What is your heart full of?

What do you spend you words on?

The Christian call to evangelism is not simply a call to persuade people to make decisions, but rather to proclaim to them the good news of salvation in Christ, to call them to repentance, and to give God the glory for regeneration and conversion.

We do not fail in our evangelism if we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not subsequently converted; we fail only if we do not faithfully tell the gospel at all.

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So…Let’s Be Obedient Evangelists!