When OR gives an answer like this:
"1. After he regenerates His elect He gives them the gift of faith whereby they can respond affirmatively to the Gospel!"
Why evangelize? God must regenerate first. Without God regenerating the heart (without which man cannot have faith), then there is no hope. One might as well stop evangelizing. Or so it seems.
DHK,
I understand OldRegular's statement and I agree with it completely.
I do not, however, agree with your statement, though I understand your questions.
Why evangelize? Because the evangelism effort by man is the means by which God has chosen to save His elect. In other words, God has given no other means by which men can come to know the Gospel--except, that is, for Christians sharing the Gospel.
So, Christians are to indiscriminately share the Gospel with everyone trusting that God will save some through our preaching/evangelism. Why? because God has commanded it and without it no one will be saved.
God regenerates some so that they are receptive to the Gospel preached by witnessing Christians.
There is a misunderstanding on the part of some Arminian-types (and I think I see it in your statement) that regeneration and salvation are the same thing. We say no, they are not. Regeneration necessarily leads to salvation, but it is not salvation, per se.
Salvation follows regeneration and it is evidence that regeneration has occurred.
Blessings,
The Archangel