Quotes about Outreach

If you are a believer, you don't have to go out and be a street evangelist.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for the others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.

Three Tasks of a Good Missionary Learn the language: educate yourself on how to talk in a way that people can understand and to which they can relate and eventually respond Study the culture: become so sensitized to that culture that you can operate effectively within it Translate the gospel: translate it into its own cultural context so that it can be heard, understood, and appropriated

There's one thing that 82 percent of all unchurched people can't seem to resist. It cuts through their defenses and penetrates their barriers. According to surveys at LifeWay Research, 82 percent of them seem to have a single weakness: if a friend, or someone they know, invites them to church. Reread that: 82 percent of all unchurched people would come to church this weekend if they were invited by a friend.

Our job is to get people to Jesus Christ and to get them back to Him in profound, life-altering ways every week.

Instead of seeing ourselves as people trying to connect with people, let's see the church as people trying to connect with God and help others do the same.

You simply cannot be a disciple without being a missionary—a sent one. For way too long discipleship has been limited to issues relating to our own personal morality and worked out in the context of the four walls of the church with its privatized religion.

I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

In the past, missionaries have traveled to far countries with the message of the gospel - with great hardship and often with the loss of life. In contrast, we can reach millions instantly from the comfort of our homes by merely hitting the 'send' button on our computers, or with iPads, or phones.

I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets.

the Church should be the place where a word reverberates right into the world.