Quotes about Outreach

The church, for far too long, has been more interested in its seating capacity than in its sending capacity.

But when we understand that we are called to be the church, not just go to church, it changes our identity. No longer do we go to a building where religious activities happen and that is "church." We now are the church all week long.

I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother - my mother's mother - who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.

When we say Church of All Nations, it's a vision given to me, that the church will touch all the world.

My great desire in my fulfilling my ministry was to get into the darkest places of the country, even amongst those people that were farthest off of profession; yet not because I could not endure the light (for I feared not to show my gospel to any)

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

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

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.

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.

If you want to see revival, plant your church in the gutter.

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