Evangelism Helpers
POWERFUL EVANGELISM QUOTES – compiled and collected in Equipped &Unashamed: An Evangelism Training Course by Pastor Chris and Linda Peeler
In times of extraordinary crisis ordinary measures will not suffice. The world lives in such a time of crisis. Christians alone are in a position to rescue the perishing. We dare not settle down to try to live as if things were “normal.” A.W. Tozer
Those who relied upon the Lord spoke with great boldness, with great courage. We’re always going to be timid and shy and fearful when we try and give the gospel in our own effort and energy. But when we’re plugged into the Holy Spirit and His passion for souls begins coursing through our spiritual veins, wild horses will not be able to stop you from sharing. So the key is to get closer to Jesus, fall in love with Him, become intimate with Him. And when you do so, you’ll have His heart for the lost, not your heart. Your heart can tend to get shy and fearful and cold and timid, but never the heart of God. Joni Erickson
The first joint priority of the churches of any city should be that of making it hard for people to go to Hell from that city. David Shibley
If their houses were on fire, you would run and help them; and will you not help them when their souls are almost at the fire of Hell? Richard Baxter
. . .it is a wonderful thing to be able to tell others of the love of Christ, knowing that there is nothing that they need more urgently to know, and no knowledge in the world that can do them so much good. We should not, therefore, be reluctant and backward to evangelize on the personal and individual level. We should be glad and happy to do it. J.I. Packer
Christ’s call is to save the lost, not the stiff-necked; He came not to call scoffers but sinners to repentance; not to build and furnish comfortable chapels, churches, and cathedrals at home in which to rock Christian professors to sleep by means of clever essays, stereotyped prayers, and artistic musical performances, but to capture men from the devil’s clutches and the very jaws of Hell. This can be accomplished only by a red-hot, unconventional, unfettered devotion, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to the Lord Jesus Christ. C. T. Studd
It is true that many are praying for world-wide revival. But it would be more timely, and more scriptural, for prayer to be made to the Lord of the harvest, that He would raise up and thrust forth laborers who would fearlessly and faithfully preach those truths which are calculated to bring about a revival. A.W. Pink
C.H. Spurgeon quotes:
Save some, O Christians! By all means, save some. From yonder flames and outer darkness, and the weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth, seek to save some! Let this, as in the case of the apostle, be your great, ruling object in life, that by all means you might save some.
I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus than unravel all the mysteries of the Word, for Salvation is the thing we are to live for.
They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law. Therefore the Law serves a most necessary purpose, and it must not be removed from its place. God be thanked when the Law so works as to take off the sinner from all confidence in himself! To make the leper confess that he is incurable is going a great way toward compelling him to go to that divine Savior, who alone is able to heal him.
Soul winning . . . should be the main pursuit of every true believer. We should each say with Peter, “I go a fishing,” and with Paul our aim should be, “That I might by all means save some.” The preacher’s work is to throw sinners down in utter helplessness, so that they may be compelled to look up to Him who alone can help them. Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.
If you really desire that men should be saved, pray for them. It is an empty wish, a mere formality, if you do not turn it into prayer. Every loving desire for any man or woman should, by the believer, be taken before God in prayer. We cannot expect that God will save men unless His people pray for it. There must be travail before the birth, and there must be travail in prayer with God before we can expect that many will be born again into the church of God. Oh, for more prayer! Let us cry to God in secret, and in the family, and in all our assemblies, that God would save the sons of men. Go on! Go on, you preachers of the Word! Spread abroad the knowledge of this great fact, that “He that believes on the Son has everlasting life.”
If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.
More Quotes: The Use Of The Law
In its true and proper work and purpose it humbles a man and prepares him, if he uses the Law correctly, to yearn and seek for grace. Martin Luther
God's grace cannot be faithfully preached to unbelievers until the Law is preached and man's corrupt nature is exposed. It is impossible for a person to fully realize his need for God's grace until he sees how terribly he has failed the standards of God's Law. John MacArthur
We cannot come to Christ to be justified until we have first been to Moses, to be condemned. But once we have gone to Moses, and have acknowledged our sin, guilt and condemnation, we must not stay there. We must let Moses send us to Christ. John Stott
The Law doesn't help us; it just leaves us helpless. It doesn't justify us; it just leaves us guilty before the judgment bar of a Holy God. Ray Comfort
There is no true evangelism without the doctrine of sin, and without an understanding of what sin is. I do not want to be unfair, but I say that a gospel which merely says, 'Come to Jesus,' and offers Him as a Friend, and offers a marvelous new life, without convicting of sin, is not New Testament evangelism. The essence of evangelism is to start by preaching the Law; and it is because the Law has not been preached that we have had so much superficial evangelism. True evangelism...must always start by preaching the Law. Martin Lloyd Jones
We have gospel-hardened a generation of sinners by telling them how to be saved before they have any understanding why they need to be saved.
Paris Reidhead
It is a great mistake to give a man who has not been convicted of sin certain passages that were never meant for him. The Law is what he needs. Do not offer the consolation of the gospel until he sees and knows he is guilty before God. We must give enough of the Law to take away all self-righteousness. I pity the man who preaches only one side of the truth - always the gospel, and never the Law. D.L.Moody
As that which is straight discovers that which is crooked, as the looking-glass shows us our natural face with all its spots and deformities, so there is no way of coming to that knowledge of sin which is necessary to repentance, and consequently to peace and pardon, but by comparing our hearts and lives with the Law. Matthew Henry
The absence of God's holy Law from modern preaching is perhaps as responsible as any other factor for the evangelistic impotence of our churches and missions. Only by the light of the Law can the vermin of sin in the heart be exposed. Satan has effectively used a very clever device to silence the Law, which is needed as an instrument to bring perishing men to Christ. It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spiritual Law of God; for, until we learn how to wound consciences, we shall have no wounds to bind with gospel bandages. Walter Chantry, Today's Gospel: Authentic or Synthetic
First, then, before you can speak peace to your hearts, you must be made to see, made to feel, made to weep over, made to bewail, your actual transgressions against the Law of God. George Whitefield
Just as the world was not ready for the New Testament before it received the Old, just as the Jews were not prepared for the ministry of Christ until John the Baptist had gone before Him with his claimant call to repentance, so the unsaved are in no condition today for the gospel till the Law be applied to their hearts, for 'by the Law is the knowledge of sin.' It is a waste of time to sow seed on ground which has never been ploughed or spaded! To present the vicarious sacrifice of Christ to those whose dominant passion is to take fill of sin, is to give that which is holy to the dogs. A.W. Pink
If men do not understand the Law they will not feel that they are sinners. And if they are not consciously sinners, they will never value the sin offering… Spurgeon