Missions & Calvinism Together?

I know this has made it 'round the blogosphere already but since I always get into discussions with friends about reformed theology and Calvinism I too feel the need to post the findings of Outreach magazines findings for the top 25 multiplying churches in America, noting of course that the top 2 are reformed in doctrine.

I often get the common question from people..." If God knows the future why would your church care about missions or evangelism." "Why would you even pray?"

To which J.I. Packer gives an excellent defense in DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY AND EVANGELISM

My experience has been completely opposite of that mindset as I have seen more passion & zeal for missions and evangelism in reformed circles then I ever saw in my past churches with a free will mindset.

For more on this subject here is a slew of links dealing with Missions and the Sovereignty of God

This quote by Spurgeon is an excellent ending...

What the Arminian wants to do is to arouse man's activity: what we want to do is to kill it once for all - to show him that he is lost and ruined, and that his activities are not now at all equal to the work of conversion; that he must look upward. They seek to make the man stand up: we seek to bring him down, and make him feel that there he lies in the hand of God, and that his business is to submit himself to God, and cry aloud, 'Lord, save, or we perish.' We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all. When he says, 'I can pray, I can believe, I can do this, and I can do the other,' marks of self-sufficiency and arrogance are on his brow.

C. H. Spurgeon