Ideas For Evangelism - Way of Life Literature

Tears and Compassion“He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing preciousseed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing,bringing his sheaves with him” (Psalm 126:6).“And when he was come near, he beheld the city,and wept over it” (Luke 19:41).“But when he saw the multitudes, he was movedwith compassion on them, because they fainted, andwere scattered abroad, as sheep having noshepherd” (Matthew 9:36).“Therefore watch, and remember, that by the spaceof three years I ceased not to warn every one nightand day with tears” (Acts 20:31).The following important observations are from the bookSpurgeon v. Hyper-Calvinism by Iain H. Murray:“It is more than knowledge of the love of God astaught in Scripture which preachers need. They mustthemselves be possessed by the love of which theyspeak. Invitations to trust in Christ preached withoutlove are no invitations at all. And a preacher whocalls men to faith, uncertain about Christ’s desire tosave his hearers, will never make an evangelist.Present fellowship with Christ is needed to end suchdoubt. It is Christ’s love, known and felt, whichcreates the spirit seen in such men as RobertMurray M’Cheyne whose hearers believed that hewas ‘dying to have them converted.’ ‘We win bylove,’ says Spurgeon. ‘We win hearts for Jesus bylove, by sympathy with their sorrows, by anxiety lestthey should perish, by pleading with God for themwith all our hearts that they would not be left to dieunsaved, by pleading with them for God that, fortheir own sake, they would seek mercy and findgrace.’“For Spurgeon there was therefore this fundamentalneed for preachers to know more communion withChrist himself. And though such communion doesnot remove all theological difficulties, it does, hebelieved, go some way towards it and it certainly