Quotes About Outreach

While the churchless continue to show some openness to high-touch, relational connections—pastoral home visits (27 percent), a phone call from a church (24 percent), a survey conducted with them about their interests (21 percent)—they are also increasingly resistant to other forms of outreach.

We've by far had the most success inviting people into our community life by inviting them to serve alongside us. As a matter of fact, that's about the only thing that's worked consistently as far as "official" church activities go. The other thing that has worked is parties—birthday parties, Super Bowl parties—where we invite churched friends and unchurched friends just to connect.

It is absolutely necessary to be effective in the digital space, though this effort alone will not spell outreach success.

Are you satisfied with the nature of your church today but simply want your church to be bigger?

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

Advertising is what you do when you can't go to see somebody. That's all it is.

I've been on a tweeting mission.

If you really believe in the message you're preaching, you want as many people as possible to listen.

No matter what projects I'm taking on, I want to (do) things to help other people.

I think there could be a very large number who are creationists by default. Those are the people I want to reach.

The church that doesn't want to grow is saying to the world, "go to hell."

The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.

We need to be the church that serves and loves people now, today, exactly where they are. Until then, we are simply managing decline.

One HELLO? can change a life.One HELLO? can save a life.

Perhaps the new way of evangelizing is not so much through confrontation and argument, but through conversation, dialogue, and affirmation

Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization seems to be foreign to Judaism.

My sister has a non-profit organization called Mission Change. It helps the homeless and kids.

Community through food is my mission; it is what I do.

Radio helps you break into a whole different audience. Radio has so much power. And that's my mission: to not only break into the EDM audience, but to break also into the mainstream audience.

Missionaries serve to make life better for God's children.

The responsibility to do missionary work rests with every member of the Church.

My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.

The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.

Putting ideas into a book means I can help even more people by getting the book into everyone's hands.