Quotes About Evangelism

In the United States of America there are twenty-seven million people under twenty-one years of age who receive no Christian training at all. Juvenile crime in the big cities is tremendous—sometimes it seems absolutely out of control. Every week one million people are dying without Jesus. In one minute, eighty-five people pass into eternity. In just the brief span of a church service hundreds are passing out into the presence of God. Does that mean anything to you?

I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.

the need to let joy be manifested outwardly as well as inwardly as an invitation to others to join in the joy of salvation.

the true apostle is on the lookout for occasions of announcing Christ by word, either to unbelievers to draw them towards the faith, or to the faithful to instruct them, strengthen them, and incite them to a more fervent life…. (DLA, 6)

Evangelism is not first and foremost a matter of strategies, plans and projects, but rather of being filled with the Holy Spirit and allowing that divine life within us to burst forth in both word and action.

I basically forgot that God called me to make disciples, not just converts.

A need for approval lies behind all efforts of evangelism. If someone else can be convinced, that will show us that we are on the right path. The attempt to convince someone of anything is a mark of insecurity. (173)

In the past, missionaries have traveled to far countries with the message of the gospel - with great hardship and often with the loss of life. In contrast, we can reach millions instantly from the comfort of our homes by merely hitting the 'send' button on our computers, or with iPads, or phones.

Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.

I believe I was born for this, to tell people about the Lord. I just wanted to find the best way that I could do it, and music, God graced me to be able to do it, and that was the way that I chose to be effective and tell people that the Lord loves them.

Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men.... This is what God expects of us

The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.

Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we'll shake England for God.

It is a tragedy when the church saves money instead of saving souls. We MUST spend to save.

The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

I just want Christians to embrace the fact that music is made not just for the church, but it's also for the people that need to hear about the love of God.

Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

We are soldiers of the cross, we've been found to reach the lost.

Successful witnessing is taking the initiative to share Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit and leaving the results to God.

The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.

We . . . exercise on earth the power of our Lord and seek with all our might to bring those sheep of His flock who are outside into the fold committed to our charge . . .

In respect to the danger of being killed by them, it is true that whoever does go must put his life in his hand, and not consult with flesh and blood; but do not the goodness of the cause, the duties incumbent on us as the creatures of God, and Christians, and the perishing state of our fellow men, loudly call upon us to venture all and use every warrantable exertion for their benefit?

Some attempts are still making, but they are inconsiderable in comparison of what might be done if the whole body of Christians entered heartily into the spirit of the divine command on this subject. Some think little about it, others are unacquainted with the state of the world, and others love their wealth better than the souls of their fellow-creatures.