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

change under pressure of love to the broken and the contrite heart, but indifference is impossible. Christ’s love compels to one action or the other.

Every true Christian wishes most devoutly that all hearts might be compelled to melt under pressure of the divine love, but so long as man can act in free will, he will be able to reject God’s grace, in spite of all that even God himself can do to melt his heart to love.

Love Compels Some to Rejection

The lost want to be let alone in their sins. They have no desire to have conscience aroused, for its action is painful and intensely unwelcome. The demons of Christ’s day on earth cried, “Let us alone” (Mark 1:24), and this is the cry of the sinners of all ages. This is precisely why the lost never will come to church until the miracle of Christ’s compelling love draws them there.

And Satan wants the lost to be let alone, and so he fills their time with everything that will crowd Christ out, and then keeps Christians from taking the Gospel to them.

But love cannot let the sinner alone, any more than light can let darkness alone. This is why Christ, in love, commissioned every Christian to bring men everywhere face to face with his yearning love, and this is why those who are filled with that love cannot help going with it to all the lost about them. Love simply cannot let the sinner alone.