Evangelism Quotes

We're a divided country on sexual issues. That's why every news cycle brings more controversy.

~ Russell D. Moore

Beginning with sin instead of creation is like trying to read a book by opening it in the middle: You don’t know the characters and can’t make sense of the plot.

~ Nancy Pearcey

He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime.

~ Philip Zaleski

Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.

~ Harold Holzer

Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.

~ Jeffrey Toobin

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

~ Greg Foster

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

~ Gary Rohrmayer

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

~ Greg Forster

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

~ Harold Holzer

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

~ Alister E. Mcgrath

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

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I’ve heard it said many times when talking about going to heaven, ‘You can’t take it with you.’ It’s true that you cannot take with you your house, car, money, or other things you have valued here on earth, but how about your husband, wife, parents, children, friends, and acquaintances? You personally will never be able to get someone into heaven, but God certainly can use you as a tool to spread the good news as He brings more people to Himself.

~ Van Harden

Furthermore, unlike so many of his evangelical contemporaries he did not hold the view that the various inter-denominational youth movements represented the most hopeful field of labour; indeed his doctrine of the church left him with little sympathy for that attitude.

~ Iain H. Murray

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

~ Greg Cootsona

Poetry of World War I, at least in its lyrical mode, was itself the last flowering of the Age of Innocence that preceded the war, that the horrors of the trenches sparked the final blossoming, as friction gives rise to fire; that the daily nightmare unfolding before the soldiers sharpened their sense of beauty, prophecy, and mission.

~ Philip Zaleski

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

~ Alister E. Mcgrath

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.

~ Mark Galli

Missional leaders understand the power of connecting relationally in their community through personal networking.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

Keep at it! Remember marketing is building a relationship! If you use marketing for a year and stop, you cut off your relationship with the larger community. Then you will have to re-start the relationship all over again. The old adage “it takes six to stick” is proven true over and over again. I realized this in year three of our church plant. I think of the hundreds of people that came to our services that had no connection with me or our people because we were willing to build a sustained relationship with them through marketing.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

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

~ Todd Stocker

I long for a church that understands the dangers of entertainment and sees it for what is is: a lion crouching at the evangelical door, ready to devour us. We need a culture of evangelism that never sacrifices to the idolatry of entertainment, but serves up the rich fare found the gospel of Christ.

~ J. Mack Stiles

We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment, it is its appointed consummation.

~ C.s. Lewis

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.

~ Martin E. Marty

God directs his people not simply to worship but to sing his praises “before the nations.” We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers, we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.

~ Timothy J. Keller

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.

~ Timothy J. Keller

If evangelism is really going to be a value that your church embraces, the church will have to embrace the changes that will take place when evangelism is activated in the church.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

What price are you willing to pay to see your church actively engaged in evangelism? Price? What do you mean by price? There is a cost for everything. One of the causes for evangelistic entropy is an unwillingness to count the cost of growth. If evangelism is really going to be a value that your church embraces, the church will have to embrace the changes that will take place when evangelism is activated in the church.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death, the modern man's worst fear is just death

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The significant thing about Edwards is the way he enters into the tradition, infuses it with his personality and makes it live. The vitality of his thought gives to its product the value of unique creation. Two qualities in him especially contribute to this result, large constructive imagination and a marvelously acute power of abstract reasoning. With the vision of the seer he looks steadily upon his world, which is the world of all time and space and existence, and sees it as a whole; God and souls are in it the great realities, and the transactions between them the great business in which all its movement is concerned.

~ H. Norman Gardiner

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.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

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

~ Philip Zaleski

Now Christianity proposes a completely different account of how history comes to a climax and what precisely constitutes the new order of the ages—which helps to explain why so many of modernity’s avatars, from Diderot to Christopher Hitchens, have specially targeted Christianity. On the Christian reading, history reached its highpoint when a young first-century Jewish rabbi, having been put to death on a brutal Roman instrument of torture, was raised from the dead through the power of the God of Israel. The state-sponsored murder of Jesus, who had dared to speak and act in the name of Israel’s God, represented the world’s resistance to the Creator. It was the moment when cruelty, hatred, violence, and corruption—symbolized in the Bible as the watery chaos—spent itself on Jesus. The resurrection, therefore, showed forth the victory of the divine love over those dark powers. St. Paul can say, “I am certain that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, nor any other creature can separate us from the love of God,” precisely because he lived on the far side of the resurrection.

~ Robert E. Barron

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

~ Ron Brackin

What, then, are we to say about the suggestion that a hearty faith in the absolute sovereignty of God is inimical to evangelism? We are bound to say that anyone who makes this suggestion thereby shows that he has simply failed to understand what the doctrine of divine sovereignty means. Not only does it undergird evangelism, and uphold the evangelist, by creating a hope of success that could not otherwise be entertained; it also teaches us to bind together preaching and prayer; and as it makes us bold and confident before men, so it makes us humble and importunate before God.

~ J.i. Packer

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

~ C.j. Mahaney

To find the Father of all is hard. And when found, it is impossible to utter Him.

~ Socrates

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

~ William Zinsser

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)?

~ Richard Baxter

We should be more concerned with reaching the lost than pampering the saved.

~ David Mcgee

Beginning to sense his call to preach boldly in dangerous situations even though he was young and slight, the author agreed to go only if God would give him a particular sense of His presence. The next morning, the author says it was as if God took out his human eyes and replaced them with God's own because he saw other people so much more vividly.

~ K.p. Yohannan