155 Quotes About Evangelism

You are the only Bible some unbelievers will ever read, and your life is under scrutiny every day. What do others learn from you? Do they see an accurate picture of your God?

God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies.

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

The way you store up treasure in Heaven is by investing in getting people there.

Every Christian is either a missionary or an impostor.

If you had the cure to cancer wouldn't you share it? ... You have the cure to death ... get out there and share it.

To be a soul winner is the happiest thing in this world. And with every soul you bring to Jesus Christ, you seem to get a new heaven here upon earth.

Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better.

Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

To me, it has been a source of great comfort and strength in the day of battle, just to remember that the secret of steadfastness, and indeed, of victory, is the recognition that "the Lord is at hand."

The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

If we understand what lies ahead for those who do not know Christ, there will be a sense of urgency in our witness.

It takes a man of God, with the Word of God, and the Spirit of God, to make the children of God, for the glory of God.

Today Christians spend more money on dog food than missions.

The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.

His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice.

You must go forward on your knees.

The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.

We need a baptism of clear seeing. We desperately need seers who can see through the mist--Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy.

His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.

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.

Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you damned?

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

Can we be casual in the work of God -- casual when the house is on fire, and people in danger of being burned?

Any method of evangelism will work if God is in it.

When a man is filled with the Word of God you cannot keep him still, If a man has got the Word, he must speak or die.

There is a moral and spiritual war for the souls of Americans. And this war must be waged by preaching the Gospel, prayer, and obedience to God's Word.

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

The church does not draw people in; it sends them out.

I preached on the righteousness of the law and the righteousness of faith. While I was speaking, several dropped down as dead and among the rest such a cry was heard of sinners groaning for the righteousness of faith that it almost drowned my voice. But many of these soon lifted up their heads with joy and broke out into thanksgiving, being assured they now had the desire of their soul - the forgiveness of their sins.

The success or failure of our work as a church or mission depends, in the last resort, largely, not in the number of preachers we put into the field, nor on the size of our congregations, but rather on the character of Christianity we and our work produce.

'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world."

If we were to become as intent on accomplishing our agenda as the gay rights activists and the feminist are for their agenda, we would see a change in this country. It's time for the church in America to turn our world upside down.

People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.

The mission of the Church is to seek and to save them that are lost.

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

Here is the principle - adapt your measures to the necessity of the people to whom you minister. You are to take the Gospel to them in such modes and circumstances as will gain for it from them a hearing.

I believe I never was more acceptable to my Master than when I was standing to teach those hearers in the open fields now preach to ten times more people than I would if I had been confined to the churches.

If I thought I could win one more soul to the Lord by walking on my head and playing the tambourine with my toes, I'd learn how!

God can use you to help win the lost.

To me, one of the most disturbing features of present-day evangelism is the over-emphasis on what man can do, and I believe this to be the reason why we so often fail to get men and women to make the contact with Christ that is vital.

The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.

There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.

We need, men so possessed by the Spirit of God that God can think His thoughts through our minds, that He can plan His will through our actions, that He can direct His strategy of world evangelization through His Church.

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.

Go for souls. Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.

Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus.

We are not sent to minister to a congregation and be content if we keep things going. We are sent to make war and to stop short of nothing but the subjugation of the world to the sway of the Lord Jesus.

No sort of defense is needed for preaching outdoors, but it would take a very strong argument to prove that a man who has never preached beyond the walls of his meetinghouse has done his duty. A defense is required for services within buildings rather than for worship outside of them.