Acts 20

Acts 20:24:
But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

Evangelism is at the very heart of Christianity. The two can never be separated. When we abandon evangelism, we lose the gospel itself, for evangelism is the gospel being proclaimed and lived.

Acts 20:27:
For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.

He did not just highlight the “good” bits or those bits which people wanted to hear. He gave them the entire gospel teaching, warts and all. He did not care if he offended people, or turned people off, or alienated people, or saw people turn their backs on him.
Proclaiming truth was always his top priority, regardless of how people responded. He did not pick and choose, cafeteria style, his message. Instead he proclaimed all of God’s truth. And so should we. But the sad truth is, there are many parts of Scripture – and even the gospels – that you will seldom hear about from our pulpits.
--Culture Watch

Acts 20:28:
“Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Spirit hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which He hath purchased with His own blood,”

Christ died for the church, He shed His blood because of His love for man. Christ actually died for the entire world, once for all time — past, present and future. The church is made up of those who have accepted Christ as the Bridegroom and are now married to Him. The world has refused to be married to Christ and as such feel no obligation to Him. -Larry Graves

Jesus Christ is not a tribal deity: he is Lord of the Christian in the pew, and he is the Lord of the atheist or the agnostic who could care less about religion. God commands “all men everywhere to repent: because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead” (Acts 17:30-31). He is not waiting for you to care: you are commanded to bow the knee to Jesus Christ whether you care or not, for the simple reason that Christ’s lordship is not dependent upon your feelings about him. It is the reality that you should conform your feelings to, not the other way round. Now some folks who love the doctrines of grace get nervous when you say that God commands all men everywhere to repent. They get even more nervous when you say that God commands all men to put their faith in Christ. And the primary reason they get nervous and object to this is that they misunderstand the doctrine of total depravity. They believe that because the Bible teaches that no one can come to Christ or love God or submit to God’s commands apart from grace, that to call someone who is dead in sin to faith and repentance would be to say that the spiritually dead can do spiritual things. This is a half-truth. It is true that the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned (1 Cor. 2:14; Jn. 6:44; Rom. 8:7-8). But it is not true that the natural man is therefore off the hook for not believing and repenting, or that they should not be called to repentance and faith. -- Jeremiah Bass; Baptist Bible Hour