Every Member Evangelism by J.E. Conant

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and practical interest in missions. No matter how much enthusiasm we show in talking and planning missionary work, if we haven’t enough interest in the African, or the Jap, or the Italian who does our work to make the first attempt to lead him to a saving faith in Christ, our interest in missions is nothing but sentiment, and it scarcely touches the fringes of Satan’s soul-destroying work.

Just so long, therefore, as the conception prevails that the pastor is to do the active soul-winning work of the church, and just so long as the most earnest members of the church stop short of actual and definite personal efforts to bring Christ to lost men and women, just so long will the great enemy of Christ and his Church prevail. It is high time the Church stopped working by Satan’s program!

How Satan Keeps the Divine Program Hindered

Satan keeps the divine Program hindered by keeping his own program in operation. Through its means he has the Church by the throat, and is strangling the life out of her by shutting off the breath of her universal testimony. He is doing this in unnumbered ways, for he fears universal testimony to the saving grace of God more than any other one thing. Anything to keep Christians still, is the one main track on which all his opposition to the Church is run.

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