With the Word to the World

Jim Tillotson

Intentionally Seeking — and Finding

I recently had the privilege of speaking at a Wild Game Dinner with around four hundred men in attendance. It was designed to be an evangelistic outreach, and eleven men indicated they trusted Christ as their Savior that night. We had a visitor to our campus get saved this past Friday. Most of the churches in our circles are not hyper-Calvinists in doctrine, but I wonder if that is true in practice. Somehow, the elect will get saved. Many churches have gone years without seeing an adult saved, baptized, and added to the church.

It does matter whether you share the gospel or not. We know that not everyone who hears the gospel will get saved and go to heaven, but we also know according to Romans 10:14–17 that one hundred percent of the people who never hear the gospel will die and go to hell. Many people would be fine sharing the gospel if someone came to them and asked them how to be saved. The problem is that that is very rare today.