One of the most common objections to the Calvinist doctrine of election is that it discourages evangelism. "It God has already predestined who goes to Heaven, then we wouldn't need to share the Gospel because they'll all be saved anyway." However, this reveals a deeply flawed understanding of Calvinist predestination. First, God does not just predestine only man's eternal destiny. He predestines the entirety of time, from the overall theme to the everyday details. This means He determines who will hear the Gospel and who will share the Gospel. We must not imagine that God needs us to save people. He chooses to use us for His glory and our good. Consequently, God chooses to send us to His elect as the means by which He brings them into the fold. God does not limit election to those who hear the Gospel, neither does He elect those who never hear the Gospel, but He elects a people and predestines that someone shares the Gospel with them. This is why we share the Gospel: not because it is up to us to ensure people can be saved, but because we have a passion to participate in God's plan to glorify Himself by bringing a multitude from every tribe and nation to faith in Him via the Gospel. In essence, we don't share the Gospel because we think we must for people to be saved, but because we want to be God's instrument when He saves. At first, this may seem odd. However, it is Biblical in how God views salvation as a whole. We give the Gospel, and God does the saving. God could do the saving without us, being almighty, but He instead chooses us as the vehicle by which the power of the Gospel spreads.
That being said, we are accountable for how our evangelism impacts the destiny of others. While all men's destinies are settled in Heaven from eternity past, as we live out our time on earth souls are really at stake. It is true that God either will or will not save someone, but our responsibility is still there. For an example, remember that all things that happen are ordained by God in eternity past, so the fate of souls is no less at stake than lives during war or money while gambling. So even though the outcomes of these things are already set in eternity, as we live them out right now we experience true risks. Our choices can affect an eternal destiny because God predestined our choices as part of the means by which on reaches that destiny. Basically, if you hope that God has predestined good in your life, do good and you will find it is what God planned! Such is the mystery of a Sovereign outside of time dictating what happens within time. One of the chief distinctives of a Reformed theology of missions is that our motivation is inherently more God-based than man-based. Since we believe that all have been predestined already, we are doing missions less so to bring about salvation than to witness and rejoice in God's work of salvation. We don't witness because we hope people will get saved if we do, but because we know God will save whoever He will and we want to be a part of that glorious work, bringing praise and obedience to the Father.
A final note about Calvinism and evangelism is that Calvinism is really the only hope for evangelism. Unconditional election and irresistible grace mean that we don't have to worry about if people will get saved, because God has already infallibly arranged people will be saved. We can present the Gospel as often and as boldly as we have will, knowing that God will accomplish whatever He wants. We needn't be discouraged by long periods of no apparent fruit, because God can at any moment breathe new life into dead souls and open their eyes to Himself, no matter how obstinate they may be. Perseverance of the saints assures us that, once we reap some first true converts, they will never fall away to destruction. The entire theory free us from pressure to perform at some excellent standard since God saves perfectly of His own effort, even when He is introduced by an imperfect vessel. Our inefficiencies won't be keeping anyone out of Heaven. In this thought we may rest and put more energy than ever into bold proclamation of the Gospel, seeking to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ.
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