Evangelism Quotes

After the original rapture of conversion had settled in, (Bob) Dylan backed away from his obviously Christian lyrics and returned to his more metaphorical use of language.

If Christians insist only on condemning what they don't like, they will cut themselves off from that shared cultural life.

Lordship and rapport are the keys to save us from being combative and make us more attractive in spiritual conversations.

I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.

To touch the heart of heaven, win a soul for heaven!

CS Lewis's humor supported his exposition but never dominated or diminished it.

Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief.

For his own unfathomable reasons, God chooses to disguise himself when he comes to this planet, and there have been few disguises better than the church.

Without vision, a church devolves into a lukewarm, aimless organization characterized by infighting, budget grabbing and a dead heart for the lost.

To give the whole store away to match what this year's market says the unchurched want is to have the people who know least about the faith determine most about its expression.

The weekly worship service can be very effective in evangelism of non-Christians and in edification of Christians if it does not aim at either alone but is gospel centered and in the vernacular.

Missional leaders not only feel the burden of God's mission but they also act on the burden and act upon it sacrificially.

The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.

I don't actually breakdance.

Christian myth, reveals the truth that "the Christian was (and is) still like his forefathers a mortal hemmed into a hostile world.

Followers of Jesus do well to spend more time engaging him than explaining him.

Very small errors in our understanding of the Gospel can result in very big problems.

It's no fun to think about infinity and no cinche to write about it. Again, it helps to look for some human link.

Do I not well deserve to be turned into hell, if the scorns and threats of blinded men, if the fear of silly, rotten earth, can drive me thither (588)?

Everything in Scripture is either preparation for the Gospel, presentation of the Gospel, or participation in the Gospel.

It's not easy being a missionary, even with the key to the cosmos in your hand.

Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus.

My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.

We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.

There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to.

It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams

Moses challenged parents both to teach the faith diligently and to maximize normal encounters or ongoing discussion.

The author, at the time a Carter speechwriter in the 1980 campaign, showed visible distress at his boss's performance and was warned by a friend in the traveling press, lest he become the story.

My job is not to get between YOU and God. My job is to put your hand IN God's hand.

Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.

In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.

Conversions were easy, but making full-time disciples was hard.

Edwards’s God was glorious, full of beauty, and seemingly uninterested in making people feel insecure. Edwards was a mystic, a man who didn’t simply write or preach about God, he experienced him.

My understanding from the Word of God is that I am supposed to preach for the maturation of the believer with a view that lost people are there.

Evangelism is not a monologue, but a dialogue.

If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the Divine. It must be displayed publicly.

Jesus told us to make disciples, not decisions.

He was always the bridge, between men as well as between ideas.

True gospel preaching always changes the heart. It either awakens it or hardens it.

If a sight of Christ's outward glory might give a rational assurance of His divinity, why might not an apprehension of He is spiritual glory do so too?

As the church get older and older it becomes harder to keep evangelism on the front burner because of all the competing issues that keeps pushing it back.

False conversions are a wart on the face of Christian evangelism.

Faith in Christ leaped from person to person like some divine epidemic, not of disease but of spiritual health.

When the author admits to Christians that he was not a Christian himself, he says their dialogue became "distant and rehearsed, like a pitch for Ginsu knives.

God has made relationships His chosen delivery system for the gospel of hope.

There is nothing in the world or the Church — except the church's disobedience — to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility.

I don't know any Baptists who don't want to see folks get saved… you start winning folks to the Lord and baptizing them… They'll pretty well put up were [your methods].