If God is Sovereign, Is Evangelism Necessary and Urgent?

The sovereignty of God is fun­damental to Reformed theol­ogy. Throughout the history of the church there has been a con­stant struggle to maintain this truth as the cornerstone of missions. Some have so emphasized missions to be the work of the church and missionaries that they have weakened and minimized God's control over missions. Others have so em­phasized God's sovereignty as to deny the church any obligation to do missions. A biblical conception of God's sovereignty in missions gives...