Quotes about Outreach

What kind of holiness does the Western Church manifest today? To answer this, we need only ask: Are the prostitutes and tax collectors of our day attracted to us or repelled by us?

The church is church only when it is there for others.

The gospel is not to take the form of hole-in-the-corner sectarianism, it must be set forth by public preaching.

Yet here we are, sitting in a restaurant, surrounded by people, many of whom are probably lost and going to hell, and we won't say a word about how they can have eternal life. Something is wrong with us. "You're absolutely right," I said. "We're willing to save someone in a visible crisis, but a lot of folks are in spiritual crisis and we don't say a word about how they can get out of it.

The goal in Pietism was the service of God in ministry to the world.

Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life.

She chose to look at her surroundings where they "think missionary" mind-set.

It is clear from our Lord's prayer that He does not intend for us to withdraw from contact with the world of non-Christians (John 17:15). Instead, He said we are to be 'the salt of the earth' and 'the light of the world' (Matthew 5:13-14).

The reason our evangelistic endeavors result in more recycling than actual conversion is that our methods and approaches assume non-Christian rather than post-Christian.

It's a shame that so many churches are married to a designed-by-Christians-for-Christians-only culture. A culture in which they talk about the Great Commission, sing about the Great Commission, but refuse to reorganize their churches around the Great Commission.

We almost always involve unbelievers in our small groups. And we give them opportunities to lead the discussion.

They have adjusted their style in order to worship with their kids. Shouldn't we be willing to adjust ours to reach their kids?