Every Member Evangelism by J.E. Conant

• Title Page
• Introduction
• The Divine Program
• The Divine Purpose
• The Divine Power
  • The Empowering Life of Christ
    • The Meaning of the Crucified Life
      • We are Utterly Unable to Obey
      • Christ Is Perfectly Able to Obey
    • The Method of Entering the Crucified Life
      • Following Christ to the Cross
      • Fellowshipping with Christ in His Cross
  • The Overflowing Love of Christ
    • The Love of Christ Impels the Christian
      • Christ’s Risen Life Overcomes
      • Christ’s Radiant Love Overflows
    • The Love of Christ Compels the Sinner
      • Love Compels Some to Rejection
      • Love Compels Some to Acceptance
• Every-Member Evangelism in Operation

were a sin to do so, I fear I should be tempted to commit that sin.”

Now the love of Christ going out through us for the lost cannot leave us in a state of inactivity nor the lost in a state of indifference. We must act under its impulse, and they must respond to it, even if it is to reject it. And so when the love of Christ has possession of us, it will both impel us and compel the lost to action.

The Love of Christ Impels the Christian

After all that has been said about how Christ lives his own life within the yielded disciple through the Holy Spirit, we can now understand how Christ’s love will impel us to go after the lost precisely as it impelled him. We are also prepared to see that if we are not doing this, it is because his life is being suppressed within us by our unwillingness to yield to it.

Now we can go on to the further truth that such an active outgoing of our lives for the lost as his love impels is the life risen with Christ. When Joseph of Arimathaea put a grave into his garden in which he who went to the cross for the lost was buried, he very soon had a resurrection there. And when a grave goes into the garden of our hearts in which self is buried and all that belongs to it, we will also share the resurrection life and fruitful activity of our Lord.

We shall study what the risen life is and what it does within us.