I have just finished reading Mark Dever's book The Gospel & Personal Evangelism. This is a book that all Christians should read. Our understanding of the Gospel and evangelism is essential for all Christians. I recently read a book that attacked this very subject because people like Mark Dever are of the reformed tradition. I would like to quote from Mark Dever's book on page 104:
"Have you heard it said that the doctrine of God's choosing some for salvation (the doctrine of election) undercuts evangelism? It didn't in Paul's life. As he later wrote to Timothy, 'I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory' (2 Tim. 2:10). Romans 10 contains Paul's clearest and most impassioned plea for the Christians to send out people to preach the gospel because it is the only way people are saved; but this impassioned plea comes after what many consider Paul's plainest teaching about the doctrine of election in Romans 9. He didn't see any inconsistency that a sovereign God is also a saving God.
"Somehow, Paul found the doctrine of God's sovereignty an encouragement in his evangelism."
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