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

their curses on him. When he lavished upon them his unmeasured love, they let loose on him their sullen hatred. His pity brought nothing but scorn, his compassion nothing but cruelty, and his lovingkindness nothing but fiendish outrage.

This is why the love-filled Christian, living with Christ in the heavenlies and seeking to save the lost, is sure to suffer the contradiction of persistent sinners. This is why “all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution” (II Timothy 3:12). And this is why the Christian who is not suffering persecution for righteousness’ sake gives no evidence of a godly and love-filled life.

The aggressive and Christ-filled soul-winner, therefore, need not be surprised at persecution as though some strange thing had overtaken him, for those who refuse the appeal of Christ’s love can do nothing else. Rejected love literally compels those who reject it to make every possible effort to quench its appeal.

Love Compels Some to Acceptance

There are some, however, who yield, thank God! And when the lost break under the appeal and yield to his love, how it melts them! Nothing else can do it like the love of Christ.

Our sympathy, our kindness, our love will never melt a sinner, but Christ’s will. What a tragedy when they cannot see it in us! What a glorifying of our risen Lord when they can! Do you see why