If we do not question well then those who follow behind will almost certainly question badly. And if we are not confidently proclaiming the shape of our faith, then our faith will be of little use to those who desperately need it.

~ Matthew Lee Anderson

Matthew Lee Anderson Evangelism Influence

Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertainment, and the arts. The assumption that society will improve simply be more Christian believers being present is no longer valid.

~ Timothy J. Keller

Timothy J. Keller Evangelism Influence

William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when they are willing to face the same trials for the sake of commerce.

~ William Carey

William Carey Evangelism Materialism Missions

Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with ‘Sorry, I don’t do books’? Can you imagine doing ministry in the next five years and getting away with ‘Sorry, I don’t do Facebook’?

~ Leonard Sweet

Leonard Sweet Evangelism Internet Social Media

Every church has a marketing plan! The only difference is that some are better than others! When I think of marketing I think of building a relationship with those within reach of your ministry who know nothing about your church or are disconnected from your people.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

Gary Rohrmayer Church Planters Church Planting Evangelism Marketing Missional Missional Church Missional Evangelism

Facebook has more than 1 billion members, which by population makes it the third largest country in the world—somewhere between India and the United States. Who’s sending missionaries to that country? Who’s planting churches there?

~ Phil Cooke

Phil Cooke Evangelism Facebook Internet

The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.

~ R.c. Sproul

R.c. Sproul Evangelism Hypocrisy Repentance

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

~ Kevin Roose

Kevin Roose Evangelism Hypocrisy

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

~ John Charles Pollock

John Charles Pollock Evangelism Holy Spirit Revival

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.

~ Kevin Roose

Kevin Roose Authenticity Evangelism Friendship Witness

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

~ Ed Stetzer

Ed Stetzer Evangelism God Gospel Hope Relationships

The mission that Jesus invites us to participate in is primarily a relational one in nature. Our ability to sustain our relationship in a meaningful way will have a direct impact on our missional fruitfulness.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

Gary Rohrmayer Evangelism Gospel Missional Church Missional Communities Missional Evangelism Witnessing

If we really believe the gospel we proclaim, we'll be honest about our own beauty and brokenness, and the beautiful broken One will make himself known to our neighbors through the chinks in our armor - and in theirs.

~ Fil Anderson

Fil Anderson Evangelism Gospel

Reading stories forces us to exercise our empathy and imagination muscles, and that helps us conceive what the Bible depicts or demands, helps us connect with others, helps us illustrate what the text teaches, and helps us apply the text’s truths.

~ James M. Hamilton Jr.

James M. Hamilton Jr. Evangelism Gospel Narrative

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. 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.

~ William Booth

William Booth Evangelism Gospel Missions

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.

~ Robert Speer

Robert Speer Evangelism Gospel Missionary Missions Obedience Possibility

God uses prepared vessels, no substitute. God is not looking for a rocket scientist, he's looking for those with a mind, and then he will finish the rest. It's like, 'God, here I am, send me,' and He will do the rest. He will prepare you. He will provide for your preparation. One thing I have seen in all my years of travel all over the world and in teaching and in proclaiming the Gospel, whoever is hungry for the word, God will break every barrier to get to that person. And who wants to know God, God will make Himself available to that person - somewhere somehow. The problem the church is having today is we have so many unprepared vessels in the church, and it's showing everywhere.

~ Moses C. Onwubiko

Moses C. Onwubiko Christian Evangelism Gospel Life

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].

~ Richard Hogue

Richard Hogue Diversity Evangelism Style