Right On!

Yes, the way I understand it is that our job is to point people to Christ by conveying the definitively finished nature of His Work on the Cross and the LORD sorts out the rest.

My conviction is it's our duty to be faithful to the (gospel) propositions contained in His Word that are illuminated by the Spirit that testifies to our conscience. Unlike the "Churchianity" of this age which often employs a myriad of gimmicks and emotionally manipulative techniques ("turn or burn" evangelism... if you could call it that) to convince goats to walk the religious walk.

From a societal perspective, such may be good for the saints as I would venture to say it fosters some semblance of order and security in our society... That is unless of course an oppressive theocratic regime ever came to power. God forbid that should come to pass but it's His plan and not mine.

We know that goats are goats and sheep are sheep and no amount of persuasive words can change the state of the former. Granted we don't know who such persons but we do know that at some point there is biblical warrant for us to "dust off our feet".

It's funny how I recall my evangelism before I was converted to the truth. I would go on and on like the Energizer Bunny and wonder why they don't get it. Anyways, I think I've rambled on enough.

I don't know that you were of the Presbyterian Reformed denomination. I'm in a strange place between being reformed and this thing called Sovereign Grace. To sum it up in a few words, they all tend to be supralapsarian and doggedly defend the premise that salvation is in Christ alone and there is absolutely nothing man can do to evidence it apart from their confession.

Alright, I'm done for real this time. You have yourself a great evening!