"The presupposition of God's election is behind our preaching to spiritually dead men. The doctrine of election, if properly understood, is not a handicap to evangelistic zeal, but rather its stimulus. We preach because we know it is not hopeless. God's elect must hear, and He will save them. The elect are many and exist in all places. Their salvation awaits our coming with the gospel, and it is our responsibility to reach them with it...The doctrine of election ought not to be preached to Christians only to comfort and reassure them...The doctrine of election should be a stimulus to good works and especially to witnessing."
From MISSIONS: THE BIBLICAL MOTIVE AND AIM,
by JOHN M.L.YOUNG, Pittsburgh: Crown and Covenant
Publications, 2007(1962). p. 25.
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*picture courtesy of Eddie Eddings, Calvinistic Cartoons.
