Spurgeon; We have all things and abound; not because I have a good store of money in the bank, not because I have skill and wit with which to win my bread, but because the Lord is my shepherd.”

No evangelism that omits the message of repentance can properly be called the gospel, for sinners can’t come to Jesus Christ apart from a radical change of heart, mind, & will. That demands a spiritual crisis leading to a complete turnaround & ultimately a wholesale transformation. It’s the only kind of conversion Scripture recognizes.

Amen; Jim Eliff; We have the mistaken notion that evangelism is a choreographed set of ideas well laid out, perfectly transitioned & flawlessly presented. Forget it. It’s not this way. Many of us have tried this with frustration. It’s much better to think of evangelism the way the Bible does – “sowing the seed” in any way you can. Any of us can do that. Ever seen a weed grow in an otherwise barren parking lot? Somehow the seed got there and flourished. The simple word in the right place, or the tract well-placed might be the means God uses. Well-oiled presentations frustrate because there is no room for serious questions and discussion on the one hand, & it rules out the less verbal among us, on the other. Rejoice over even the smallest of advances! You are sowing the seed.

Spurgeon; Unless the Holy Ghost blesses the Word, we who preach the gospel are of all men most miserable, for we have attempted a task that is impossible. We have entered on a sphere where nothing but the supernatural will ever avail. If the Holy Spirit doesn’t renew the hearts of our hearers, we can’t do it. If the Holy Ghost doesn’t regenerate them, we can’t. If He doesn’t send the truth home into their souls, we might as well speak into the ear of a corpse.

Phil 3:8-10 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, & count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ & be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him & the power of His resurrection, & the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,

Truly my soul silently waits for God; From Him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved. My soul, wait silently for God alone, For my expectation is from Him.
Psalm 62:1-2,5

Heb 12:14 Pursue peace with all people, & holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:

Phil 2:14 Do all things without complaining & disputing,

As Jim doesn’t practice in being a doer & a hearer, as his feet, are on quick sand amen!

John Newton; May we sit at the foot of the cross and there learn. what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.

PS 74:16-17 The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have prepared the light & the sun. You have set all the borders of the earth; You have made summer & winter.

Mat 16:18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, & on this rock I will build My church, & the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

Pro 8:35-36 For whoever finds me finds life, & obtains favor from the Lord; But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; All those who hate me love death.”

Pro 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom & instruction.

A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope."
-Thomas Watson.

Rom 8:35-39 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Jer 14:14 And the Lord said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I haven’t sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, divination, a worthless thing, & the deceit of their heart.

Gals 6:9 And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.