“Salvation ordinarily and primarily occurs in the church. Men are commanded to take their family to church where the word is preached. Men are not,except in extraordinary circumstance, saved by conversation or evangelism. Most conversions are FAKE, and men are brought from lawlessness to religion by it, but not converted. The preaching of the word in the church is where salvation is as it always has been.

There was no salvation outside of Israel and they were NOT commanded to invite the philistines to repent, but to destroy them. Jonah was sent to a heathen city, because of the stubbornness and wickedness of Israel as Paul speaks of in Romans 11, that the Jews would be stirred to jealousy by the salvation of a Gentile nation (in the temporal sense) Ninevah many commentators suppose did not experience true spiritual repentance except in very few. Jonah was disgruntled because it was NOT ordinary for ministers to be called out of their sphere, to talk to strangers about the wrath of God.

So while a Christian can in good conscience pray for the lost, it does not mean everyone in every instance should witness to them. As occasion calls, as opportunity arises, but men are not saved by this, but they are saved by the preaching of the gospel in the church where the authority of God is. Outside the church it is man to man, opinion to opinion, but in the church it is the very word of God. The gospels and Acts do NOT record the apostles preaching on the streets, but as apostles bringing the gospel to the Gentiles (which is an extraordinary case) they established churches by their word, and began at the synagogues and places of worship.

The modern Baptist method of evangelism not only does not produce converts, it is not the correct manner of preaching. If you are not called as a minister of the gospel, it may be best that you sit and learn rather than pretending God needs you to increase his kingdom. Such is the self righteous mind set of the modern world with a self imposed opinion of their own ability, calling and worth. And it’s destructive.”
~Ethan James