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• Evangelism is something only God can do.

• God makes himself known through the beauty of his creation.
  - Illustration: Allison uses a scene from the movie Grand Canyon to show how a despairing world can look around at the wonders of creation to find God.
• God makes himself known through the people he created.

• The Son of Man came to seek the lost.
  - Illustration: Losing their son, even briefly, caused the Allisons to know and understand the heart of a parent searching after a lost child.
• God seeks after the individual.
  - Illustration: Steve Wingfield and C. S. Lewis are quoted, relating a perspective on God's personal, intentional, and sovereign evangelism.

• We are included through the work of prayer.
• We are included through God's divine appointments for us.
• Illustration: Allison relates a story of a seemingly coincidental, but divinely appointed, conversation with a hotel valet.
• Illustration: A man in the next booth at a local Denny's overhears Allison's witness and asks to know God.

• He sent us with the promise not to leave us.
• He promised we would be given the right words at the right time.

• Illustration: C. S. Lewis describes his being drawn into God, not knowing how but knowing when.