Quotes about Evangelism

From such experiments Christians have learned that the gospel grows best from the bottom up rather than being imposed from the top down.

Whatever the tradition is, if that tradition becomes more important than the mission of seeing people come to know Jesus, then it's time for the whip.

There is a ripple effect to the gospel that's inevitable. There's a ripple effect to true grace. It doesn't lead us to only sit and contemplate what hap- pened to us. It leads us to proclaim what's happened to us—and what can happen to anybody and everybody on the planet.

The Puritans, then, were not afraid to use the law of God as an instrument of evangelism. When God is about to play the chord of grace in the soul, they taught, he usually starts with the bass note of the law. In order for man to come to Christ, he must first come to an end of his own righteousness. "They held [that] the index of the soundness of a man's faith in Christ is the genuineness of the self-despair from which it springs," says Packer.

The destiny of America is to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men everywhere.

While life lasts, I am an evangelist.

If I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say.

Most Christians have enormous respect for the space and freedom of others, it is only that they have found a joy in Jesus they want to share. There is the tension.

He was the first to see that Christ's ministers must do the work of fishermen. They must not wait for souls to come to them, but must go after souls, and "compel them to come in.

Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it's needed most?

The reason why we fail to prevail with unconverted men is due to our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.