Quotes About Outreach

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.

We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

You cannot be the hands and feet of Jesus if you're sitting on your butt.

To be a missionary you don't have to cross the sea, you just have to see the cross.

Our assignment is to make sure people can see Jesus clearly. This is the very reason we must meet them where they arc-consumer mentality and all. We must greet them with unconditional acceptance and respect. This is how people will begin to see Jesus clearly. Our goal should be to do anything and everything that helps our guests see Christ. Since

Start finding future clients before you have anything to sell them. Get to know these people as friends, not potential customers.

The true goal of Christian unity is world evangelization.

If the presence of God is in the church, the church will draw the world in. If the presence of God is not in the church, the world will draw the church out.

A missionary church cannot rely on the professional ministry for the primary work of mission. The role of the laity is critical because it is the lay members of the church who have the greatest contact with those who are outside of the normal structures of church life. In such a situation the task of clergy is not so much to engage in mission themselves, as to support the laity in their mission.

We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.

I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one.

THIS YEAR CATHOLIC CHARITIES WILL PROVIDE 2.2 MILLION FREE MEALS TO THE HUNGRY AND THE NEEDY OF CHICAGO. WE DON'T ASK THEM IF THEY ARE CATHOLIC—WE JUST ASK THEM IF THEY ARE HUNGRY. REDISCOVER CATHOLICISM.

ACTION STEP If you are ever bored, look for a way to get outside yourself and serve others.

Both made the completion of the chain possible by making themselves and their wants known to a lot of people.

The Catholic Church built and ran hospitals, schools, and centres for the poor and unemployed generations before the secular state became involved, and even today a visit to almost any main street in the Western world or to a village or town in the developing world will show Catholic charities and outreach organizations operating in what are often the most challenging of conditions.

And, in a larger sense, Graham was soon vindicated. Within just a few months, he received invitations to preach in the nations that were then known as Czechoslovakia and East Germany - trips that would turn out to be genuine crusades in countries desperate for Christian ministry. It had not been easy to watch, but Graham had wedged his foot in the door. And he would help kick it wide open over the next few years. p. 275

As the twentieth-century theologian Emil Brunner put it, "The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church. . . ."24

As Christians, we're not salespeople; we're just introducing mutual friends.

Our commission is to compassionately reach out to those around us, invite them to join us in community, share the story of the gospel, make disciples, and gather them into families to follow Jesus together.

MCs center their rhythms on growing in relationship with God (UP), with one another (IN), and with those they are reaching out to (OUT). This is community life centered on the Great Commandment and the Great Commission: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind soul and strength" (UP). "Love your neighbor as yourself" (IN). "Go and make disciples of all people groups" (OUT).

Many Christian leaders spend their entire lives within the confines of the church campus and wonder why they see little breakthrough in the area of evangelism.