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Evangelism is selling a dream. -- Guy Kawasaki
Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life. -- Luis Palau
One Way: Jesus! One Job: Evangelism! -- T.L. Osborn
Mother was a great force in her area of evangelism. -- Jessi Colter
Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread. -- Daniel Thambyrajah Niles
Evangelism is when the Gospel, which is good news, is preached or presented to all people. -- Billy Graham
Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me. -- Ethel Waters
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. -- D. Elton Trueblood
Evangelism is not salesmanship. It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news. -- Richard Halverson
Evangelism is a cross in the heart of God. -- Leighton Ford
Evangelism, in its purist form, is an overflow of worship. -- Bill Johnson
Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent. -- John Mott
Evangelism and the local church are inseparable. It's like the Good Samaritan seeking an inn for the one he rescued. -- Reinhard Bonnke
Evangelism that starts at the nonbeliever's point of felt need and ties the gospel into that area of need has the greatest capacity for capturing the mind and heart of the non-Christian. -- George Barna
Evangelism was not a program in the Jerusalem church; it was a way of life. The believers' lives and behaviors created such favor with the population of Jerusalem that people we drawn to the Lord. -- David Jeremiah
We wrote about having five kids and bringing them to church. A journalist at The Washington Post wrote this article where the headline was "The New Catholic Evangelism Of Jim Gaffigan." And it was a bit terrifying. -- Jim Gaffigan
The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a failure of the imagination. Beware of prophets: the best visions are the ones they leave in the desert. -- Robert Charles Wilson
I just want to lobby for God. -- Billy Graham
There were no bigger stars in the new evangelism than the Bakkers. -- Kathie Lee Gifford
Being an extrovert isn't essential to evangelism - obedience and love are. -- Rebecca Pippert
Spend more time in study and prayer. That's the secret of successful evangelism. -- Billy Graham
We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God. -- John Stott
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. -- John Piper
Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that! -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
One of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism. -- Billy Graham
The world has more winnable people than ever before but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed. -- Donald McGannon
If you live by the same values and priorities [Jesus] had, you will find evangelism happening naturally. It becomes a life-style and not a project. -- Rebecca Pippert
The reason I love Luis Palau is because this is a guy who is completely all about evangelism and reaching people and the lost with the gospel. -- Stephen Baldwin
We Christians sometimes think we need a plan for evangelism. I don't think Jesus had an evangelism plan. I think He just interacted with the people He came into contact with. -- Matt Diaz
If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception. -- John Piper
We should be holy people eager to greet our Lord when He returns, ready at any moment for the trumpet's call, people of optimism, busy in evangelism, hands to the plow, eyes on the prize. -- David Jeremiah
I am doing a lot of work for my church, taking an evangelism class, doing a lot of reading - mostly the Bible and things that coordinate with the Bible and go with the evangelism class. -- Angus T. Jones
The church as a whole has strayed quite far from biblical evangelism; that is, sharing the Gospel in the way that Jesus did, the way the Apostle Paul did, and the rest of the disciples and prophets in Scripture. -- Kirk Cameron
Prayer is crucial in evangelism: Only God can change the heart of someone who is in rebellion against Him. No matter how logical our arguments or how fervent our appeals, our words will accomplish nothing unless God's Spirit prepares the way. -- Billy Graham
There are actually only ever two pastoral problems you will ever encounter. The first is this: persuading those who are under the dominion of sin that they are under the dominion of sin. That's the task of evangelism. And [second], persuading those who are no longer under the dominion of sin that they are no longer under the dominion of sin because they're Christ's. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
But the best argument of all [for evangelism] is to be found in the wounds of Jesus. You want to honor Him, you desire to put many crowns upon His head, and this you can best do by winning souls for Him. These are the spoils that He covets, these are the trophies for which He fights, these are the jewels that shall be His best adornment. -- Charles Spurgeon
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Christians and non-Christians have something in common. Were both uptight about evangelism. -- Rebecca Pippert
The simple definition of evangelism: Those who know, telling those who don't. -- Leith Anderson
The Apple store is not a store. It is an exercise in evangelism. -- Paco Underhill
Technology evangelism has always been my passion since I learned how to use computers. -- Arfa Karim
The most important thing to the Christian community is not the environment but evangelism. -- John Hagee
We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another. -- Timothy Keller
America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism. -- Leonard Ravenhill
The essence of evangelism is to passionately show people how you can make history together. -- Guy Kawasaki
All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action. -- J. I. Packer
Bad evangelism says: I'm right, you're wrong, and I would love to tell you about it -- Timothy Keller
The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him. -- R. Kent Hughes
Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today. -- Vance Havner
It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience. -- Billy Graham
The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ. -- Max Anders
Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism. -- Rick Warren
At the end of the day, the biggest obstacle to evangelism is Christians who donâ??t share the gospel. -- Albert Mohler
If you as a pastor don't have a passion for evangelism then don't be surprised if your people done either. -- Aubrey Malphurs
When the world sees us doing evangelism, they just see us recruiting. When they see us doing justice, they see God's glory. -- Timothy Keller
Let us...once and forever put an end to that lie which says that Calvinism and an interest in evangelism are not comparable. -- George Whitefield
Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism. -- Criss Jami
The secret of evangelism is Guy's golden touch - whatever is gold, Guy touches. That's very different than saying whatever Guy touches turns gold. -- Guy Kawasaki
For years, the church has emphasized evangelism, teaching, fellowship, missions, and service to society to the neglect of the very source of its power--worship. -- Robert E. Webber
How many evangelism programs have you encountered in which sharing the gospel assumes no relationship with the customer and Jesus is sold like soap? -- Reggie McNeal
Prayer is the burden of revival; repentance is the breakthrough of revival; evangelism is the blessing of revival; holiness is the bounty of revival. -- Steve Camp
Today's evangelism is just as likely to take place via chat rooms and viral videos as it is in a personal conversation or a sermon. -- Martin Lindstrom
Mass communication can aid in personal evangelism and the development of Christians, but it cannot be a substitute for the world seeing the truth lived through us. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete. -- Matthew Parris
The key to evangelism is a great product. It is easy, almost unavoidable, to catalyze evangelism for a great product. It is hard, almost impossible, to catalyze evangelism for crap. -- Guy Kawasaki
If evangelism isn't an expression of love of neighbor, it isn't Christian evangelizing. And love of neighbor includes not only what I say to the neighbor but how I say that. -- Miroslav Volf
I'm all for lifestyle evangelism, but I'm also in favor of intentionality, where we seek out opportunities for spiritual conversations and are equipped to explain the gospel and why we believe it. -- Lee Strobel
The bigger-is-better form of evangelism may have passed, .. The emerging generation has been so advertised, media-tised and oversold that the smaller, quieter and more authentic is the growing edge of their experience. -- Craig Detweiler
We do not fail in our evangelism if we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not subsequently converted; we fail only if we do not faithfully tell the gospel at all. -- Mark Dever
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 Keller
These then are the marks of the ideal Church - love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what Christ desires to find in His churches as He walks among them. -- John Stott
If you are anything like me you'll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low. -- Bill Hybels
If you add to or subtract from the cross, even if it is to factor in biblically mandated religious practices like prayer and evangelism, you rob God of His glory and Christ of His sufficiency. -- Matt Chandler

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