Quotes About Outreach

If we can't live the sacred journey with Christ daily and are not actively drawing others into that journey—way outside the worship center or sanctuary and outside our stained-glass or silk-plant ghettos—we can't expect to do it in an hour on Sunday morning or Wednesday night.

we should focus on people who don't know Jesus yet, but Jesus himself gave us the model for doing that: Disciple people.

The meat is on the street."11

I remember the thrill that was mine when, in one of my first meetings, I led my first soul to Christ in America. And he was one of my own countrymen.

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.

Mission, in its widest as well as its more focused senses, is what the church is there for.

What, in particular, might it mean to say that 'as Jesus was to Israel, so the Church should be for the world'?

Stepping outside your comfort zone to reach out can have tremendous payoffs. Whether you are building your network of media contacts, writing an opinion piece for a newspaper or blog, arranging a meeting with your local Congressman, or engaged in a media blitz around your latest paper, you'll generate ripples that can lead to surprising and gratifying results.

It is the professional's responsibility to reach out and make the extra effort to connect with parents who seem resistant to becoming involved.

What kind of ministry is that, just talking to people?" Criticism directed at Francis Schaeffer's plan to open an obscure spot in the Swiss Alps to those who came with questions.

The true Christian is a communicator.

Instead of bringing people to church so that we can then bring them to Christ, let's bring Christ to people where they live.

If you want to win this world to Christ, you are going to have to sit in the smoking section. That is where lost people are found, and if you make them put their cigarette out to hear the message they will be thinking about only one thing: "When can I get another cigarette?

One of our church networks has as its purpose statement "To have a church within walking distance of every person living in Las Vegas.

Any church wishing to rediscover the dynamic nature of the early church should consider planting new churches.

Let us say to the people not 'How much have you got?' but 'How can we serve you?

There is no question that the Four Spiritual Laws have been remarkably fruitful as a way of evangelism, but they are not good for everyone.

apologetics is pre-evangelism in that it addresses those who do not realize they are in a bad situation, and therefore do not see the gospel as the good news that it is.

We must never distinguish apologetics and evangelism too neatly. But in broad terms, evangelism is the sharing of the good news, and it addresses the needs and desires of those who know they are in a bad situation.

A Christian servant is one who perpetually looks into the face of God and then goes forth to talk to others.

Now, if these people are not the focus and object of ministry, then what is ministry?

Christians should be living so that sinners are attracted to them.

We need to become painfully aware of how we're obscuring God from those who need to connect with Him the most: the lost.

He sent gifts to those in Bethel, Ramoth Negev, and Jattir;