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

whom ever went near church, and she said, “I will go and see them.”

“What excuse will you offer for calling?” asked the minister’s wife. “Oh, yes; take this book,” she said. “I remember hearing one of the young ladies express a desire to read it.”

“But I don’t want any excuse,” said the caller. “I want them to know I am interested in them.” That visit resulted in the conversion and church-membership of three of them, and the regular church attendance of all of them.

In speaking of it afterward, the mother said, “I never realized the danger we were in until I saw some one else—and that one a stranger—was concerned about me.”

Oh, for multiplied thousands of Christians through whose lives the radiant love of Christ is constantly flowing out to the lost!

Now we shall study the effect of God’s love on the sinner.

The Love of Christ Compels the Sinner

Contact with the love of Christ compels action. It is absolutely impossible to remain indifferent in its presence. Response of some kind is as certain as response in nature to the action of the sun.

But the response which love compels is not all of one kind. It is of two opposite kinds, with no middle ground between. The soul that feels the love of Christ will respond either with a melting heart or with antagonism. Antagonism may