Quotes about Outreach

More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.

I feel that if my only audience is the Christian audience, then I've failed in my mission.

I don't want to make a mistake that would hurt the cause of Christ late in my life, so I'm going to do everything I can to bring many people to Christ. If he can use me in that regard through 'Family Talk,' that will be my greatest legacy.

Far too often, unbelievers know Christians only for what we stand against, not what we stand for.

This is what every follower of Jesus should be engaged in on a regular basis: sharing our faith, leading others to Christ, discipling them, and helping them to get grounded in the church—and then going out and doing it all again.

A poll by researcher George Barna revealed that about 25 percent of the adults in the United States would go to church if a friend would just invite them.

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.