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AG STUDY GUIDE FINAL - The Forerunner

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2. Dr Tom Ascol: Well, we evangelize because God has ____________________us<br />

to. If God is God and we are his creatures, the fact that He says to do it, that is<br />

enough.<br />

3. Pastor Walter Bowie: First of all, we should be evangelizing, if for no other<br />

reason, simply because Christ said to do it. If there was no logic, no rhyme, no<br />

reason, if we had nothing but the simple command, "go therefore and preach'<br />

that’s why we should evangelize, number one. <strong>The</strong>n secondly, a more<br />

comprehensive answer is that evangelism is the_______________ by which God<br />

has purposed to bring His will to pass. And so the God of the ends is also the<br />

God of the means.<br />

4. Dr. D. James Kennedy: God is pleased to use human means to accomplish His<br />

gloriously divine and eternal ends. And we have the incredible privilege of<br />

being _____-________________with Christ in bringing to pass the greatest most<br />

glorious end imaginable, the redemption of God’s elect.<br />

Pastor Walter Chantry: God has intended to save men through the means of<br />

mortal human beings. It is absolutely astounding that God would use a weak,<br />

fragile, sinful human being to testify to the LORD Jesus Christ.”<br />

5. Dr. R.C Sproul: Does God specifically need you or me to evangelize? _______<br />

but it is a __________________________.<br />

6. Eric: As a result of free-will theology, much of modern evangelism falsely<br />

assumes that God needs us to proclaim the gospel. Though they would never<br />

say it this way, the impression one gets is that without us God can do nothing.<br />

Scripture, however, teaches the exact __________________. Jesus put the axe to<br />

the root of such humanistic thinking when He responded to the Pharisees’ plea<br />

that He tell the crowd to stop praising Him.<br />

But He answered and said to them, "I tell you that if these should keep<br />

silent, the stones would immediately cry out."<br />

Luke 19:40<br />

In the same way, His cousin, John the Baptist, rebuked a crowd for<br />

only trusting in their religious heritage. For I say to you that God is<br />

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