Thanks, good article.

But isn't indiscriminate preaching rather wasteful? Certainly, we are commanded to spread the word. Perhaps it's because it's assumed that "whosoever" hears and believes the message and confesses Christ as Lord will be saved. That's my theory.

More importantly, isn't it a bit dishonest to preach to a group of people and let them believe any one of them might be one of the "elect"? To be completely honest, shouldn't they start with a disclaimer: "Listen folks, some of you are elected, some are reprobate. I have no way of knowing. You have no way of knowing. Only God knows. So what I'm about to tell you will be irrelevant for the reprobate, and superflous for the elect."

Mike