“We must have the heathen converted; God has myriads of His elect
among them, we must go and search for them somehow or other.” – C. H.
Spurgeon
Some say that Calvinism kills all zeal for evangelism. History, of
course, tells us a very different story. Someone sent me the following
few paragraphs:
As Mitch Cervinka explains: One needs only examine Protestant history
to see that Calvinists have been on the forefront of evangelism and
missions. George Whitefield was outspoken in affirming all five points
of Calvinism, yet he was one of the most zealous and effective
evangelists of the Great Awakening. Wherever he traveled, both in
England and America, people would turn out by the thousands to hear him
preach in the open fields.
The modern missionary movement began in 1792 when the Calvinistic
Baptist, William Carey, left England to minister the gospel in India.
With the help of William Ward and Joshua Marshman, he founded 26
churches and 126 schools, and translated the Bible into 44 languages
including Sanskrit. Continue at John Samson
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