Browse 375 quotes about Evangelism.
“He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime.”
Source: The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
“Because children already have a realization of their weakness, is this not the best opportunity to apply the gospel to their hearts?”
Source: Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church
“After the original rapture of conversion had settled in, (Bob) Dylan backed away from his obviously Christian lyrics and returned to his more metaphorical use of language.”
“Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.”
Source: The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
“If Christians insist only on condemning what they don't like, they will cut themselves off from that shared cultural life.”
“The author says those who often claim to be tolerant are tolerant of those who agree with them – which is no one's definition of tolerance.”
Source: I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist
“The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.”
Source: Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
“Jesus didn't debase the holy into the secular; He infused the secular with the holy.”
Source: Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
“Erasmus’s Bible-saturated mind. His was a mind too broad for fundamentalism, which rejects reason, and too honest for intellectualism, which rejects revelation.”
Source: The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
“There is nothing in the world or the Church — except the church's disobedience — to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility.”
“What we saw in Richard Nixon's face was the panic in his soul. – Richard Goodwin”
Source: 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
“The culture around us knows what it means when they see a church in perpetual bluster and outrage. They know that we are scared.”
Source: Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
“The opportunities presenting themselves to us at the dawn of the third millennium are no longer those of the great post-war stadium rallies. Our opportunities are those of the information age, global connectedness and the postmodern search for community, authentic spirituality and social justice.”
Source: Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation
“Anytime you feel like you don't have any work to do, just look around. Look for what God had started doing and ask for his permission to assist him in doing it.”
“One of the distinct hallmarks of the fanatic is his fervent desire to change you so that you will be like him. To convince you that you must immediately convert, abandon your world, and move into his. The fanatic does not want there to be any differences between people. He wants us all to be as one. He desires a world with no curtains drawn, no blinds shuttered, no doors locked, no shadow of a private life, for we must all be one body and one soul. We must all march together in threes on the path ascending to redemption, whether this redemption or the opposite one.
The fanatic strives to upgrade and improve you, to open your eyes so that you, too, can see the light. Indeed, in that sense the fanatic is a wondrously altruistic and extremely unselfish creature: he is interested in you far more than he is in himself. Day and night he yearns to save your soul, to unshackle you, to take you out of darkness into the light, to redeem you once and for all from error and sin. Here he comes to hug you, sick with worry about your condition, bubbling with goodwill to change your prayer habits (or lack thereof), your voting or smoking habits, your eating habits, your preferences, your entire lifestyle, which is so harmful to you. All the fanatic wants is to take you in his arms and hug you, to raise you from the lowly spot you are stuck in and place you in the sublime place he has discovered, where he has since been basking and to which you must ascend immediately. For your very own good.”
Source: שלום לקנאים
“I believe in the last days, God will use His people to set the most rebellious souls free. If we remain faithful with God's truth, He will use us to soften the most hardened hearts. Angry fists will bloom into open palms of praise when we speak.”
Source: How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts--Not Just Arguments
“God himself–the God who spoke and all creation came into being, the God who causes the sun to rise and calls the stars by name, the God before whom mountains quake and seas roar, the God who rules and reigns over all things in all the universe–came to earth as a baby because he wants to be with you.”
Source: All You Want For Christmas
“The world needs missionaries of love, missionaries of reason, not mercenaries of organized religion, out to harvest convert vegetation.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“Human is the one who asks no one to kneel; go, walk the earth not to evangelize, but heal.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“How Do You Take It Easy?
How do you take it easy
When His fire burns within?
How do you take it easy
In a world that's crushed by sin?
How do you take it easy
With a thousand tribes to tell?
How do you take it easy
In a world that speeds to Hell?
How do you take it easy
While the church sleeps in its ease?
How do you take it easy
Will someone tell me, please?”
Source: Revival God's Way
“Don't let your pride murder your message.”
Source: How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts--Not Just Arguments
“The way we do apologetics looks different when we are motivated not by our desire to conquer the other person, but by our genuine love and compassion, and by our desire to see people discover God's lifegiving truth.”
Source: How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts--Not Just Arguments
“When we're more invested in politics than we are in people--when someone shares their story--we won't hear a testimony, but a position. We won't hear a cry, but a stance.”
Source: How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts--Not Just Arguments
“Let us ask God to kill our pride and all the other sin inside us that might be in the way of the gospel. We don't ever want our personal conduct or behavior to be the reason someone rejects the gospel.”
Source: How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts--Not Just Arguments
“We need not doubt that the Evangelical movement had a powerful effect in waking up eighteenth-century England from its religious apathy, or that eighteenth-century England needed it. Where it failed was in its long-term effects. Religion became identified in the popular mind with a series of moods, in which the worshipper, disposed thereto by all the arts of the revivalist, relished the flavours of spiritual peace. You needed neither a theology nor a liturgy; you did not take the strain of intellectual inquiry, nor associate yourself whole-heartedly with any historic tradition of worship. You floated, safely enough, on the little raft of your own faith, eagerly throwing out the lifeline to such drowning neighbours as were ready to catch it; meanwhile the ship was foundering.
It is this by-passing of an historic tradition in favour of a personal experience that has created the modem religious situation in England, and to some extent in the English-speaking world. The Oxford Movement did but lock the door on a stolen horse. On the one hand, it is assumed that every man's religion is his own affair; it does not concern, need not alarm his neighbours. On the other hand, the Christian witness has become a sectional affair; Christianity is one of the fads which people adopt if they are interested in that kind of thing. A poster in a railway station, bidding you be prepared to meet your God, is passed by with an indulgent smile. If people are burdened with a sense of sin, by all means let them seek comfort in some conventicle which promises them release from it; the same is perhaps true of people who begin to feel lonely in old age. But always religion is thought of, instinctively, as a way of changing from one state of mind into another.”
“My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.”
Source: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
“I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou canst eat it all thyself. True grace puts an end to all spiritual monopoly.”
Source: Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
“Because cultures and languages are constantly changing and because the apostolic testimony must be attested in ever-new circumstances, it is a necessary feature of the apostolic tradition that it both guard the original testimony and make it understandable in new culture settings. Failing either is to default on the apostolic tradition. Far from implying unbending immobility, apostolicity requires constant adaptation of the primitive apostolic testimony to new historical challenges and languages, yet without altering or diluting the primitive witness.”
Source: Corrective Love: The Power of Communion Discipline
“You don’t write a book when God called you to publish a library! You don’t plant a tree when God send you to cultivate a forest! You don’t evangelize to a crowd when God called you for a multitude! No matter the circumstances, find yourself doing something relevant and do it till all is well done!”
Source: Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
“Before they are preachers, leaders or church planters, the disciples are to be lovers! This is the test of whether or not they have known Jesus. This remains the case today: this cross-love is the primary, dynamic test of whether or not we have understood the gospel word and experienced its power...It is our cross-love for each other that proclaims the truth of the gospel to a watching and skeptical world. Our love for one another, to the extent that it imitates and conforms to the cross-love of Jesus for us, is evangelistic.
pp. 56-7”
Source: Total Church: A Radical Reshaping around Gospel and Community
“God makes his gospel attractive through his people.”
Source: Spiritual Conversations: Creating and Sustaining Them Without Being a Jerk
“This emphasis is directed primarily at the here and now, as Christ-embodying communities of active love in the midst of the world. All of creation is caught up in the restorative work. The mission of God’s people is not simply directed at saving people’s souls from a bad life-after-death into a good life-after-death, but it addresses and hopefully touches the injustice and violence around us—poverty, racism, sexism, economic exploitation, war, environmental destruction—where salvation, justice, and peace can merge.”
Source: Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick
“On an individual and corporate level the church is learning to love and accept people where they are at on their journey along with providing opportunities and experiences for them to engage relationally with other Christians along with exploring the implications of Christ's teachings. I am a big proponent of the concept that Christianity is more “caught that taught” and that a person’s meaningful involvement in the process is critical to them experiencing the power of the gospel in their lives. This meaningful involvement takes time and persevering love.”
Source: Spiritual Conversations: Creating and Sustaining Them Without Being a Jerk
“Missional leaders understand the power of connecting relationally in their community through personal networking.”
“The mission that God has given us is a highly relational mission. Jesus said, "As the Father has sent me, I am sending you" John 20:21. Jesus came into this world, lived in obscurity for 30 years and then spent three years relationally investing in twelve men, whose charge was to do the same thing by relationally investing in others. This strategy has worked for 2000 years each of us has been touched by someone reaching out to and investing in us relationally, thus advancing the gospel and the mission of God.”
Source: First Steps for Planting a Missional Church
“Missional leaders not only feel the burden of God's mission but they also act on the burden and act upon it sacrificially. Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits. Brokenness, inner turmoil and sacrifice will always be part of the missional leader's life.”
Source: Next Steps For Leading a Missional Church
“Every church has a marketing plan! The only difference is that some are better than others! When I think of marketing I think of building a relationship with those within reach of your ministry who know nothing about your church or are disconnected from your people.”
Source: First Steps for Planting a Missional Church
“Keep at it! Remember marketing is building a relationship! If you use marketing for a year and stop, you cut off your relationship with the larger community. Then you will have to re-start the relationship all over again. The old adage “it takes six to stick” is proven true over and over again. I realized this in year three of our church plant. I think of the hundreds of people that came to our services that had no connection with me or our people because we were willing to build a sustained relationship with them through marketing.”
Source: First Steps for Planting a Missional Church
“Introverted seekers need introverted evangelists. It's not that extroverts can't communicate the gospel, either verbally or nonverbally, in ways that introverts find appealing, it's that introverted seekers need to know and see that it's possible to lead the Christian life as themselves. It's imperative for them to understand that becoming a Christian is not tantamount with becoming an extrovert.”
Source: Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture
“The verbal tool of exploring mystery together is not confrontation or preaching but dialogue. We subject ourselves to the same questions we pose to others, and as we traverse them together, we may arrive at surprising conclusions we could never have reached when simply trying to defeat one another's logic. Our questions are open ended, granting the other person the freedom to respond or not to respond. The questions stick with us, even haunt us, long after we ask them, and we await insight together. The process is more important than an immediate decision.”
Source: Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture
“If you BABYSIT the youths, you will get BABIES.
If you LEAD the youths, you will have LEADERS!”
Source: How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church
“Traditionally: Believe → Become → Belong
This Generation: Belong → Believe → Become”
Source: How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church
“Don’t just invite youths to the party,
give them a seat at the table.”
Source: How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church
“Empower the youths, Don’t Entertain them!”
Source: How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church
“Going beyond “Every nation in my generation”
to “Every Generation in my nation”
Source: How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church
“Strong GenerationS Churches do not fight tomorrow’s war with yesterday’s strategies.”
Source: How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church
“Don’t use people to build the church.
Use the church to build people.”
Source: How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church
“Do the Important, Not the Impressive.”
Source: How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church
“From your generation onwards, it will be different.”
Source: How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church
“Fathers don’t just reproduce sons.
Fathers reproduce fathers.”
Source: How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church