The following quotes about the essential role of the Law in evangelism are food for thought...and prayer and consideration. At this hour, I am too tired to include my own thoughts, so maybe I'll add them in a comment soon. I hope each of you is doing well and that you are presently in prayerful awe that God chose you (of all people)...that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit elected from the foundation of the world to resurrect your corrupt, lifeless soul at immeasurable cost to Himself.
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"Satan, the god of all dissention, stirs up daily new sects...he has raised up a sect such as teach that men should not be terrified by the Law, but greatly exhorted by the preaching of the grace of Christ." -- Martin Luther
"A sinner will never receive grace until he first trembles before a just and holy law." -- C.H. Spurgeon
"The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciouses of millions." -- A.W. Tozer
"A gospel which merely says 'Come to Jesus' and offers Him as a Friend, and offers a marvelous life, without convincing of sin, is not New Testament Evangelism. True evangelism...must always start by preaching the Law." -- Martin Lloyd-Jones
"Preach 90% law and 10% grace." -- John Wesley
"You must preach the Law, for the gospel is a silken thread, and you cannot get into the hearts of men unless you have made a way for it with a sharp needle; the sharp needle of the Law will pull the silken thread of the gospel after it." -- Robbie Flockhart
"The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a savior from Hell rather than a savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of Fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness." -- A.W. Pink
"...the Law acts the part of a severe schoolmaster. It drives us by force, rather than draws us by love. And yet love is the spring of all. It is the spirit of love which, by this painful means, tears away our confidence in the flesh, which leaves us no broken reed whereupon to trust, and so constrains the sinner, stripped of all to cry out in the bitterness of his soul or groan in the depth of his heart, 'I give up every plea beside, Lord, I am damned; but thou hast died.'" -- John Wesley
"Never, never let us despise [the Law]. It is the symptom of an ignorant ministry, and unhealthy state of religion, when the Law is lightly esteemed. The true Christian 'delights in God's Law'(Romans 24:10-20)" -- J.C. Ryle
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