similar statements, I believed for years that Adams would never work with non-Christians. He seems profoundly ambivalent and hence confusing on this point, sounding in much of his work as if no significant work at all should be attempted with non-Christians. But just a few pages after this statement, he offers a remarkably good rationale for helping people who exhibit no responsiveness to the gospel. He follows the argument of the Westminster Confession that virtuous or improved behavior, though