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“Evangelism is not simply looking at someone and saying, "Look, you have to become a Christian". Instead, an evangelist tells us the truth about who God is, and explains where we stand as a result of that. People can ignore us - indeed, they have every legal right to do so.”

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Author:Mark Dever

“People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense.”

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Author:Mark Dever

“Worldliness in the church is a lot more pervasive than a lack of passion for evangelism. Nevertheless, one of the results of worldliness is a waning enthusiasm for evangelism.”

Passion Church Results Enthusiasm Nevertheless Evangelism Worldliness

Author:Mark Dever

“Unfortunately, many of our churches calibrate their life to these nominal Christians. The predictable result is that you get fake, hypocritical churches that confuse the message of the gospel and make it hard for others who are trying to do genuine evangelism.”

Trying Hard Christian Church Results Messages Genuine Fake Evangelism Predictable Hypocritical

Author:Mark Dever

“Advice on evangelism needs to be tailored to individual situations. For instance, I know someone who needs to be encouraged to speak less and work more. That would be a better testimony for him because he has certainly let his work colleagues know about Jesus. It's not that I don't want him to witness about Jesus, but I have a lot of sympathy for his employer. He is paying for work to be done.”

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Author:Mark Dever

“The important thing when you are tied down is to continue to model Christ's love. This will ensure that your words, perhaps spoken long ago, will have fresh relevance, or it will help little ones to understand what it means to live the Christian life in days to come. A life well-lived in these circumstances can be hugely useful in evangelism.”

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Author:Mark Dever

“Every believer should evangelize. I know some Christians think that evangelism is only for people with special gifts for it, but I don't believe the New Testament teaches that. While Paul does say that some believers have the call to be evangelists, all of us have the responsibility of evangelism.”

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Author:Mark Dever

“I think it's unhelpful to suggest that the task of evangelism is essentially the responsibility of ministers.”

Thinking Responsibility Tasks Ministers Evangelism

Author:Mark Dever

“I don't see a clerical class in the New Testament to which evangelism has been delegated. Preaching is not the only way to evangelize; it can happen in everyday conversations too. And you don't need a special gift to witness to the Lord in these situations.”

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Author:Mark Dever

“The difference between apologetics and evangelism is that in apologetics, you are answering objections that the world raises, whereas in evangelism, you are bringing the message that Christ brought. So unbelievers tend to set the agenda in apologetics, and you set the agenda in evangelism.”

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Author:Mark Dever

“We can't know at any given time how God will bless our faithful witness. So the apparent numerical growth of the church is never a good guide to how faithful we have been in evangelism.”

Knows Has Beens Given Growth Church Guides Gods Will Witness Faithful Bless Evangelism

Author:Mark Dever

“I assume that normally the Lord will be bringing people to himself through the instrumentality of the preached word. However, we have to be very careful that we don't assume that if we are 'X' faithful in evangelism, then we will see 'Y' results right now. It doesn't work like that.”

People Ifs Results Lord Right Now Assuming Careful Faithful Evangelism

Author:Mark Dever

“I do want to pray for the Lord to glorify himself and, yes, I also will pray for an outpouring of his Spirit, but I also will rejoice in what he is doing now, and I will try to be a faithful steward of the gospel by preaching it "in season and out of season", as Paul reminds us. So I want to be careful not to make an idol out of revival, or to rely upon it to the point where I don't plan for evangelism.”

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Author:Mark Dever

“We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.”

“Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.”

Wanted Mother Release Evangelism Frenzy

Author:Ethel Waters

“Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.”

Source: The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley ...

“God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose.”

Source: Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions

“Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.”

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Book:Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions

Source: Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions

“Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!”

Christian Wish Saved Evangelism

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.”

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Author:John Piper

“The church as a whole has strayed quite far from biblical evangelism; that is, sharing the Gospel in the way that Jesus did, the way the Apostle Paul did, and the rest of the disciples and prophets in Scripture.”

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Author:Kirk Cameron

“While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight While there is a drunkard left, While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!”

“I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren't true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn't keep a lie for three weeks. You're telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.”

“We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.”

“Christian art is the expression of the whole life of the whole person as a Christian. What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be solely a vehicle for some sort of self-conscious evangelism.”

Persons Art Self Whole Christian Expression Conscious Art Is Whole Life Vehicle Evangelism Self Conscious Totality Whole Person Christian Art

Book:Art & the Bible: Two Essays

Source: Art & the Bible: Two Essays

“The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.”

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Author:Hudson Taylor

“Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus.”

Men Inspirational Persons Jobs Religion Jesus Responsibility Company Evangelism Unrelenting

Author:D. Elton Trueblood

“If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying "Peace, peace," where is no peace; if I forget the poignant word "Let love be without dissimulation" and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth things, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

Ifs Knows Peace Hurt Forget Love Is Forgiveness Edges Heal Right Thing Smooth Evangelism Blunt Poignant Calvary

Book:If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?

Source: If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?

“The command is to love him, not just to think about him, or do things for him. We are not to stop with a proper legal relationship - for example, to think of a man as legally lost, which he is, in the sight of a holy God - without thinking of him as a person. Saying this, we can suddenly see that much evangelism is not only sub-Christian, but subhuman - legalistic and impersonal.”

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Book:True Spirituality

Source: True Spirituality

“Oh, my brothers and sisters in Christ, if sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies; and if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay, and not madly to destroy themselves. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.”

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Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.”

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Book:HOW TO PRAY: The Importance of Prayer [Second Edition]

Source: HOW TO PRAY: The Importance of Prayer [Second Edition]

“The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.”

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Author:Dawson Trotman

“I do not believe that one can earnestly seek and find the priceless treasure of God's call without a devout prayer life. That is where God speaks. The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life is not to make you number one in the world's eyes, but to make him number one in your life. We must be willing to be outshone while shining for God. We hear very little about being smaller in our own self-estimate.”

“When God gets ready to shake America, He may not take the Ph.D. and the D.D. God may choose a country boy ... God may choose the man that no one knows, a little nobody, to shake America for Jesus Christ in this day, and I pray that He would!”

“Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent.”

Social Christianity Social Work Evangelism

Author:John Mott

“Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.”

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Author:Charles Spurgeon

“We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.”

“Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.”

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Author:Francis Xavier

“I have but one passion - it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.”

“The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.”

Source: A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures

“The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.”

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Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread.”

Religion Bread Just One Evangelism Beggar

Author:Daniel Thambyrajah Niles

“Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.”

Source: The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen

“One Way: Jesus! One Job: Evangelism!”

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Book:Soulwinning

Source: Soulwinning

“The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.”

“The simple definition of evangelism: Those who know, telling those who don't.”

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Author:Leith Anderson

“No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.”

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Author:Oswald J. Smith

“Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.”

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Author:A. B. Simpson

“All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.”

Action Christian Christian Inspirational Theology Evangelism Thrust

Author:J. I. Packer

“It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.”

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Author:Martin Luther

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