We are so easily tempted to be man-centered in our conception of the gospel. Evangelism seems to be more appealing that way. And theology, too. But that humanistic approach has often led the Church astray, for it invariably accommodates the Word of God to suit the notions of men. You cannot bring men back to God unless that way of their salvation begins with God.
Humanism always ends where it starts, namely, with man.
The predicament in which we sinners find ourselves is so utterly hopeless that divine redemption is our only way out. The Bible says, what we know to be true from our own honest introspection, that we are dead in trespasses and sins. And such dead men cannot begin their own resurrection. They must be raised by another by God. You cannot expect sinners who are depraved by nature to initiate the work of their own redemption.