how to do a search

I did it like this...

to add to what's been said....

How about  a search like:

"limited atonement NEAR evangelism"

Also, as another Calvinist, I too think that the idea that Calvinists need not evangelize (or some similar thought) is just not accurate.

Also, probably getting a systematic theology book or two(from a reformed tradition) would help this particular search.

I used the search ("limited atonement", "particular redemption") NEAR (evangel*, gospel), which produced some good hits. If you're a 5-pointer, you might like this quote from Spurgeon which was on the first page of results in my library:

I have my own private opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else. I do not believe we can preach the gospel, if we do not preach justification by faith, without works; nor unless we preach the sovereignty of God in His dispensation of grace; nor unless we exalt the electing, unchangeable, eternal, immutable, conquering love of Jehovah; nor do I think we can preach the gospel, unless we base it upon the special and particular redemption of His elect and chosen people which Christ wrought out upon the cross; nor can I comprehend a gospel which lets saints fall away after they are called, and suffers the children of God to be burned in the fires of damnation after having once believed in Jesus. Such a gospel I abhor.

If ever it should come to pass,
That sheep of Christ might fall away,
My fickle, feeble soul, alas!
Would fall a thousand times a day.

Mark Barnes said:

I used the search ("limited atonement", "particular redemption") NEAR (evangel*, gospel), which produced some good hits. If you're a 5-pointer, you might like this quote from Spurgeon which was on the first page of results in my library:

Hi Mark, I used your search and when it only gave me 2 instances in Grudem's Systematic Theology, I couldn't beleive that was accurate. I changed your search a tad, to this "limited atonement" OR "particular redemption" NEAR (evangel*, gospel)  and got 13 in that resource, plus a bunch of other relsults in other resources. For some reason, it wasn't picking up the "limited atonement" as a result in that query, not sure of the logic for that though?

From a non-reformed type, yet somewhat Calvinistic [:)], the below was one of two that came up in Grudem for your search.

The statement "Christ died for his people only" can be understood to mean that "Christ died to actually pay the penalty for all the sins of his people only." In that sense it is true. But when non-Reformed people hear the sentence "Christ died for his people only," they often hear in it, "Christ died so that he could make the gospel available only to a chosen few," and they are troubled over what they see as a real threat to the free offer of the gospel to every person. Reformed people who hold to particular redemption should recognize the potential for misunderstanding that arises with the sentence "Christ died for his people only," and, out of concern for the truth and out of pastoral concern to affirm the free offer of the gospel and to avoid misunderstanding in the body of Christ, they should be more precise in saying exactly what they mean. The simple sentence, "Christ died for his people only," while true in the sense explained above, is seldom understood in that way when people unfamiliar with Reformed doctrine hear it, and it therefore is better not to use such an ambiguous sentence at all. (pg. 601, Grudem's Systematic Theology)

Mark Barnes said:

It has lots of hits, but most of them are just for "limited atonement" and therefore don't relate specifically to evangelism or gospel proclamation, which is what was requested. My search gives me 118 results in 38 articles in 33 resources, so I guess my library is more skewed in the direction of these type of resources than yours.

Ok, that makes sense, I had 93 results in 27 articles, in 24 resources with your search results, it just didn't click, but I get it now. Thanks!

ry, the first thing to check is that you are using the Hebrew portion of the morphology and not the Aramaic. It's not clear which one you have selected from your screenshot. You've probably got it right but occasionally people who have the right search terms get flummoxed by this little detail.

There is something curious going on her with the way the the BHS WIVU shows the lemma for the preposition. The string I got to work was:

lemma:פֶּה WITHIN 2 WORD lemma:ךְּ

The lemma for the preposition doesn't look like you'd expect it to. What I did was found an example of the proposition and copied it from a right click menu to make certain I was doing it right.

What I did was copied the preposition manually typed "lemma:" and pasted the copied lemma. I don't know how to get the word picker to work properly with this word... sorry.

David Moser said:

I'd also add "definite atonement" to the search, as many Calvinists prefer to use that label. The search would look like:

("limited atonement", "particular redemption", "definite atonement") NEAR (evangel*, gospel)

Thanks, David. That produced hits in 38 articles in 30 of my resources.