But this is why I care

"Why are you delving into calvinism?" asked a friend.

"Don't you think it cripples your ability to evangelise, since you think that it's the election that counts?"

Well, it's odd that people go all evangelism on me when we talk about calvinism. To me, calvinism has always been about the benefit it brings to me as a believer, in knowing how exactly I came to Christ. Feel free to say that it's not important, that it's a peripheral pursuit that I should lay down.



http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/the-value-of-knowing-how-god-saved-you
Just read that if you have time to spare. 

Else, I have not attained it, but I think that if I grasp God's sovereignty in my life, I ought to become more evangelical, striving to see God's powerful exercising of His sovereignty over and over as sinners come to Him through Christ.

When I say "it is made possible by God", "it it God who works, not me", "all Glory goes to Him", at least I can really mean it.