Evangelism with finesse

What might evangelism be like if we intentionally asked ourselves questions about God's requirements of love and justice in our actions? There would be a constant consciousness of what we ought to do under God's law, juxtaposed with what the person we are speaking to needs. What a tension.

Love and justice each reside within us and continually inform us in every decision, each advocating for their side. Remember that God acts in perfect love and justice always, and if that sounds complex - well, God is complex, and he calls his people to imitate him in that emotional complexity. We are well advised to "listen to both ambassadors [love and justice] and then arrive at a decision that will be most pleasing to their Master." So, okay. Our first object is not to please ourselves or even our audience; it's to please God. At the same time, part of pleasing God is being kind and sensitive to unbelievers.

I don't know if it's like this for anybody else, but to me it is incredibly daunting to realize, yet perfectly, maddeningly clear, that this sort of evangelism requires the utmost care, prayer, reliance on the Spirit, intelligence, and nuance. It's evangelism with finesse. And... I think that's exactly the example we are called to follow. I think that's true sensitivity - to God's requirements even more than man's preferences.

"For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings."
_I Corinthians 9.19-23