Here are the resources I referenced in this past Sunday’s sermon on evangelism in case you’re interested in learning more:
Also helpful are:
The sermon for this day was on the topic of evangelism and its relationship to the health of a church. Although it was a topical sermon, I based it largely on an exposition of John 4.
The man who knows he has been forgiven, only in and through the shed blood of Christ, is a man who must forgive others. He cannot help himself. If we really know Christ as our Saviour our hearts are broken and cannot be hard, and we cannot refuse forgiveness. If you are refusing forgiveness to anybody I suggest that you have never been forgiven.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, pp. 348-9.
Our innermost and greatest desire should be the desire for God’s honour and glory. At the risk of being misunderstood I suggest that our desire for this should be even greater than our desire for the salvation of souls. Before we even begin to pray for souls, before we even begin to pray for the extension and the spread of God’s kingdom, there should be that overruling desire for the manifestation of the glory of God and that all might humble themselves in His presence.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, p. 339.
In our natural state we are totally depraved. No inclination to holiness exists in the carnal heart; and no holy act can be performed, or service to God rendered, until the heart is changed. This change, it is the office of the Holy Spirit to effect. Pardon, justification, and adoption, are changes in a man’s condition; but if no other change were wrought, the man would remain a slave to sin, and unfit for the service and enjoyment of God. Grace, therefore, does not stop with a mere change of condition, but it effects also that change in the character, without which the individual could not participate in the holy enjoyments of heaven, or be fitted for the society of the blessed.
- John L. Dagg, Manual of Theology, p. 277.
