“Evangelizing in the church is like fishing in a bathtub:
it’s terribly convenient, but you don’t catch much.” (Dr. Roy Fish)
"We're no longer fishers of men, but keepers of the
aquarium, and we spend most of our time swiping fish from each others
bowls."
"In the Great Commission, the Lord has called us to
be--like Peter--fishers of men. We’ve turned the commission around so that we
have become merely keepers of the aquarium. Occasionally I take some fish out
of your fishbowl and put them into mine, and you do the same with my bowl. But
we’re all tending the same fish."
"Evangelism is the outward flowing of the rivers of
grace toward men, but worship is the upward expression of the human spirit
toward God."
- Donald Gee
We need to quit praying that God would send revival! He sent
you to your city. Become the revival that you have been praying for!
The church that becomes focused upon maintaining itself
instead of the gospel becomes a dead branch of the living vine... Thomas C.
Oden
I'm sick and tired of only reading about church history;
let's make some by the grace of God! - LEONARD RAVENHILL
"We are not called to proclaim philosophy and
metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man's fall, his need of a new birth,
forgiveness through atonement, and salvation as the result of faith, these are
our battle-ax and weapons of war." - C. H. SPURGEON
"We are not called to proclaim philosophy and
metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man's fall, his need of a new birth,
forgiveness through atonement, and salvation as the result of faith, these are
our battle-ax and weapons of war." - C. H. SPURGEON
To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a
pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a
University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside
remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other
graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the
Divine. - General William Booth
The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace
this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is
truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!" ~ A. W. Tozer
"Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to
bring the world to Christ." ~ Billy Sunday
When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern
keep the people asleep. - Billy Sunday
"It is possible for the most obscure person in a
church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the
evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent
positions." -- John R. Mott
A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience
to God. - Charles Finney
“Catch on fire and others will love to come watch you burn.”
- John Wesley
"We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take
our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown."- William
Booth
“You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend
and be spent in this work. And go not only to those that need you, but to those
that need you most…It is not your business to preach so many times, and to take
care of this or that society; but to save as many souls as you can; to bring as
many sinners as you possibly can to repentance.”
– John Wesley
"The greatest of all things is not theology; it is not
controversy; it is to save souls." - Dr. Lyman Beecher
On the night of October 8, 1871, D.L. Moody finished a
message with some words he regretted for the rest of his life. So great was his
remorse that he committed himself to never making the same mistake again. The
title of Moody's sermon was "What Shall I Do with Jesus?" At the end,
he announced, "Now I want you to take the question with you and think it
over, and next Sunday I want you to come back and tell me what you're going to
do with Him." But next Sunday never came. As Moody dismissed his audience,
the nearby courthouse fire bell sounded. At the time, no one had any idea how
serious the blaze would become. As it turned out, the hall in which Moody
spoke, the church he established, and his home were all destroyed in the
inferno that became the Great Chicago Fire, along with more than 18,000 other
buildings. But Moody hardly gave a second thought to his gutted home and
church. They could easily be replaced – but not the lost souls. It was the
memory of the audience he never saw again that was seared in his mind for the
rest of his life.
If your Gospel isn't touching others, it hasn't touched you!
-Curry R. Blake
"There is no improving the future without disturbing
the present." - Catherine Booth
"In all ages conformity to the world by Christians has
resulted in lack of spiritual life and a consequent lack of spiritual vision
and enterprise. A secularized or self-centered Church can never evangelize the
world." - John R. Mot
When William and Catherine Booth were told by their
denomination to move from a place where they were making a maximum impact for
the Kingdom of God to another area where they would not be able to make such an
impact, Katherine Booth stood up and boldly proclaimed "HELL NO!" Let
us proclaim to Hell that we will not conform to its plans for our lives no
matter who the messenger is! Let us follow God and make a Maximum Impact for
His Kingdom!
Our relationship with God is a personal thing but not a
private thing. We are the light of the world. We should never hide our light!
Reaching the lost is the lifeblood of a church. If you
aren't winning souls, be so disturbed about it that you change! - Willie George
Ministry need not be an office; it’s a lifestyle
devoted to attracting the lost to Christ and encouraging other believers in the
faith.” – D.L. Moody
I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would
rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with
light-- John Keith Falconer
The Great Commission is not an option to be
considered; it is a command to be obeyed -- Hudson Taylor
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men
into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the
cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a
waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose. --C. S. Lewis
“The crowds themselves are meaningless. The thing
that counts is what happens to the hearts of the people.” - Billy Graham
"Isn't it staggering when you think that one
sermon on the day of Pentecost produced 3000 people? And we had some cities
yesterday where 3000 sermons were preached and nobody was saved. And it doesn't
even faze us."- Leonard Ravenhill
"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." -
Elton Trueblood
Evangelism is the
spontaneous overflow of a glad and free heart in Jesus Christ.
A man once testified in
one of D.L. Moody's meetings that he had lived "on the Mount of
Transfiguration" for five years. "How many souls did you lead to
Christ last year?" Moody bluntly asked him. "Well," the man
hesitated, "I don't know." "Have you saved any?" Moody
persisted. "I don't know that I have," the man admitted.
"Well," said Moody, "we don't want that kind of mountaintop
experience. When a man gets up so high that he cannot reach down and save poor
sinners, there is something wrong.
Some
wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission
within a yard of hell. -- C.T. Studd
“I look on all the world
as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it
meet, right, and my bounden duty, to declare unto all that are willing to hear,
the glad tidings of salvation” -John Wesley
“We are told to let our
light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses
don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.” -
Dwight L Moody
"God save us from
living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!" Charles Spurgeon
"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." - John Wesley
To call a man evangelical
who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction. - Morgan, G. Campbell
"I'd rather have
people hate me with the knowledge that I tried to save them." - Keith
Green
“Oh, to realize that
souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into
the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost, and yet to feel no
anguish, shed no tears, know no travail! How little we know of the compassion
of Jesus!" - Oswald J. Smith
"It is of no use for
any of you to try to be soul-winners if you are not bearing fruit in your own
lives. How can you serve the Lord with your lips if you do not serve Him with
your lives.? How can you preach His gospel with your tongues, when with hands,
feet, and heart you are preaching the devil’s gospel, and setting up an
antichrist by your practical unholiness?" - Charles Spurgeon
"Can we go too fast
in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in
Hell."- William Booth
Our business is to present
the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought
clothed in Christian terms. Confusion here is fatal. - J. I. Packer
It is now possible to live
a "christian life" without doing the things that Jesus commanded us
to do. "We have hired people to go into all the world, to visit those in
prison, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to care for widows and
orphans. The average Christian doesn't have to do it.--Cal Thomas
A revival does two things.
First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the
conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on
the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church
today!- Billy Sundy
I have but one passion: It
is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and
henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning
souls for Christ. -- Count Nicolaus Ludwn Zinzendorf
Are
you waiting on the call? Stop waiting... We are called to surrender and once
surrender happens the commissioning will come. (Acts 1:4)
In an effort to
rebrand the church, we must be careful not to rebrand the message of Christ!
"Evangelism
requires leadership. Leading someone toward giving up their world-view &
embracing yours isn't easy" Seth Godin
"We've made a big
mistake by asking people to "ask Jesus into their hearts"...Jesus
never asked for our "hearts"...Jesus asked for our lives and the question
is not if we will receive Jesus the question is have me met the requirements
for God to receive us...we come to God on God's terms." Rick Renner
True
ministry is reaching people and touching lives. Everything else is just stuff
we have to do. - Jerry Moyer
People
of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out
and happened to things.” - Elinor Smith
With
decades of leading the body of Christ into positional truths - isn't it time
that we now lead the same toward a concern for the lost? – Doug Jones
Someone asked “will the heathen who have never heard the
Gospel be saved?” It is more a question with me whether we who have the Gospel
and fail to give it to those who have not can be saved. -- Charles Spurgeon
God calls us into ministry to be his hands
and feet to our generation. If it ceases to be about this, maybe we should look
for another job!
"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most
for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is
since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have
become so ineffective in this." ~ C.S. Lewis
"The walls of every church must include the ends of the
earth" - R. Bonnke
"The Christian is a person who
makes it easy for others to believe in God." - Robert Murray McCheyne
It matters not how spiritual a church may profess to be, if souls
are not saved, something is radically wrong, and the professed spirituality is
simply a false experience, a delusion of the devil. People who
are satisfied to meet together simply to have a good
time among themselves are far away from God. Real spirituality always has an outcome." -
Oswald J. Smith
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