Evangelism begins with a compassion born of a proper assessment of the massive character

of the problem.

Unbelievers flayed and stripped and depressed and destitute and headed toward divine wrath, destroyed by false shepherds and on their way to a fiery

hell. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

Today John focuses on the single most important reason Christians are on earth,

to be witnesses for Christ.

The question is, how do you know if you're really carrying out the Great commission, if you're witnessing in the right way.

Do you need special training to give the gospel?

And why evangelize when God chooses whom he saves?

Bring those questions to today's broadcast

as John looks at attitudes of effective evangelism.

That's the title of the lesson today on Grace to You.

So get your Bible and turn to Luke Chapter 10 and follow along as John begins the lesson.

We come now to the 10th chapter of Luke's Gospel, and let me read the text to you.

Now after this the Lord appointed 70 others and sent them two and two ahead of him to every

city and place where he himself was going to come.

And he was saying to them, the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

Therefore, beseech the Lord of the Harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.

Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs in the midst of wolves, carry no purse, no bag, no shoes, and greet no one on the way.

Now that is a very practical, straightforward text, but it is loaded with some wonderful application

for us. You'll see that as it unfolds.

Since our Lord Jesus walked on the earth at the time he was here and since there have always

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