Quotes About Evangelism

Secondly, If the command of Christ to teach all nations be confined to the apostles, then all such ordinary ministers who have endeavoured to carry the gospel to the heathens, have acted without a warrant, and run before they were sent.

India in the 1840s and 1850s was slowly filling with pious British Evangelicals who wanted not just to rule and administer India, but also to redeem and improve it.

If America's slide into secularism continues, then what awaits us tomorrow is already evident today in Europe. Western Europe has become so secularized that it's hard for the gospel even to get a fair hearing. As a result, missionaries must labor for years to win even a handful of converts. Having lived for thirteen years in Europe in four different countries, I can testify personally to how hard it is for people to respond to the message of Christ.

There is no one on earth more passionate about the winning of the lost than the Holy Spirit. He desires to break the chains of sin from every soul. He is the Spirit of evangelism.

The evangelism of Billy Graham is revered, so that if one dares to call the message of Graham the doctrine of Pelagius out of hell, as the Canons of Dordt do indeed call it, he is likely to be stoned as a blasphemer in the streets of Reformed Jerusalem. (3rd edn, p. 63)

Too much "evangelistic preaching".... comes out as "a God without wrath bringing men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross - The Evangelism Mandate, David Larsen pg. 35

an early Christian, like Paul, must have been wholly occupied with the religious propaganda, so that he could see nothing, hear nothing, feel nothing, and observe nothing except the chance of converting some heathen individual or group of persons.

If we have not enough in our religion to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home.

Our responsibility is to get God's word to their ears. Only God can get the word from their ears to their heart.

Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.

Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.

If I can convince others that there is a God and that they need to know Him, then I have done my job.

How many people have you made homesick for God?

As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others.

Who knows who's waiting right now for one of us to invite them into God's family?

God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.

We owe the world an encounter with God

God has given believers the responsibility of spreading the Gospel to all the world, and we need to use all at our disposal to accomplish this task.

It takes more than a busy church, a friendly church, or even an evangelical church to impact a community for Christ. It must be a church ablaze, led by leaders who are ablaze for God.

A church is a soul-saving company or it is nothing.

God had an only Son and He made Him a missionary.

Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

The Son of God had missionary supporters

We should want to evangelize because of the joy that God puts in our hearts. Ultimately, that's the best reason for sharing our faith.