Satan, On Evangelism

Everything has polar extremes. Within the topic of evangelism and God's sovereignty, you can find folks who are swinging way out the opposing sides of cynicism and fanaticism.

Those who (correctly) have a high view of the sovereignty of God run the risk of becoming detached from evangelism believing (incorrectly) that God will just save who He wants to save without their help. Others who haven't yet given the complete nod to God in the realm of sovereignty (at least by their actions, though they may profess it), will do anything, however theatrical and ridiculous to get a person to make a decision for Christ.

J. I. Packer puts it like this:

"Satan, of course, will do anything to hold up evangelism and divide Christians; so he tempts the first group to become inhibited and cynical about all current evangelistic endeavors, and the second group to lose its head and become panicky and alarmist, and both to grow self-righteous and bitter and conceited as they criticize each other. Both groups, it seems, have urgent need to watch against the wiles of the devil." ~ Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God

So the devil would like for us to be crazily spinning off to one side or the other, because each one hampers true evangelism. This makes it mightily important that we stop making "guesses about [God's] plan", as Packer says elsewhere, and do what we have been commanded to do: preach the message of Christ in word and deed and through relationship.