Quotes About Outreach

I started my cycling academy to try and get more people from a BAME background into cycling.

The most important thing is that we're impacting people for the Kingdom of Jesus Christ... that's why we're here.

If you do not become their friend and then share Jesus with them . . . who will?

Too many of us are too comfortable in our "Jesus lifeboat." Instead of the church preparing its members to reach out to other people who are still in the water and pulling them into the boat, we have settled in for the ride to heaven and are busy coming up with ways to make the trip more comfortable. We go to church each week and worship God because we are saved and safe, forgetting that the lifeboat is not yet full.

Many men have come to view the church for its convenience—help me, bless me, serve me, preach to me, sing to me, pray for me, but don't expect me to be a vehicle to minister to anyone else or join with you to impact the world.

Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.

their feet. And that vote may help them march away from the synagogue if the synagogue doesn't find effective ways to engage them.

To emphasize what is required for this proposed change—which is quite substantial—I like to say that I believe the synagogue needs to turn itself inside out. In other words, it has to become an institution that serves the entire local Jewish community—and, in some cases, secularists too—rather than functioning solely as an institution that serves only its members. When synagogues turn themselves inside out, all Jews and all those in Jewish families in the

to serve the majority of the Jewish community, even its entirety, rather than just those who are members of Jewish institutions.

If we turn the synagogue inside out, the synagogue would serve a far broader audience, one that is not restricted by the traditional notion of synagogue membership. Synagogues can reach out and serve a population larger than their current membership if they are willing to emphasize those things that the synagogue does well and that are within its purview, while refraining from those things that are irrelevant to the synagogue and its work. In too many situations

Sometimes we do very little outreach in our community and don't let our light shine because there is an area of

He insisted that the poor in other nations, like those in his own, needed no government assistance. "Their greatest need is not more money, food, or even medicine; it is Christ," he said. "Give them the Gospel of love and grace first and they will clean themselves up, educate themselves, and better their economic conditions."31

If you never reach out, no one will ever take your hand. (Lorelei) If I never reach out, then no one can ever bite my hand. (Jack)

Think of someone you know who's not saved but you may be afraid to share the Gospel with that person. I've found a way that's radically effective in training people to share the Gospel.

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting, and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security." The

Make the calls. Maybe they won't talk to you, but I guarantee that if you don't call, they won't talk to you.

I have a daily message, 'Stimumail,' which I use to stimulate the mind and heart. I have the opportunity to touch over 60,000 people I have never met. I also use Twitter and Facebook.

I'd like to reach out to more women and different body types.

What is so attractive about Uganda for missionaries is that they have free rein. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, the parliament.

My mom, she was unbelievable. She ran the whole town. She was like the mayor. There would be 15 people eating at our lunch table. She'd drag people from the street.

One who is mild rather than forceful has greater capacity for outreach.

Go from village to village, do good to humanity and to the world at large.

A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.