The Spirit and the Evangelist

As Thomas Watson states, "Ministers knock at the door of men's hearts, the Spirit comes with a key and opens the door"....While the human witness, therefore, communicates externally to the mind and affections, hoping thus to reach the heart and challenge the will, the Spirit also, and at the same time, communicates internally to the heart and the conscience, often confronting the will and making it willing in the day of his power.

--Brian A. DeVries, "The Evangelistic Trialogue: Gospel Communication with the Holy Spirit," Calvin Theological Journal 44, pg. 60.