....There are only so many times I can point to Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield and the Great Awakening, or William Carey and the great missionary movement of the nineteenth century, or Charles Spurgeon and the countless thousands saved under his ministry. Sooner or later I have to stop looking at my heroes and look to myself. I cant claim their zeal as my own. I cant claim their obedience as my own. It is my convictionconviction rooted in close study of Gods Wordthat Calvinism provides a soul-stirring motivation for evangelism, and that sharing the gospel freely and with great zeal is the most natural application of biblical truth. But it is my confessionconfession rooted in the evidence of my own lifethat my Calvinism too rarely stirs my soul to mission. The truths that have roared in the hearts and lives of so many others, somehow just whisper in me. The fault, Im convinced, is not with Gods Word, or even with my understanding of Gods Word; the fault is with me.