evangelism

We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.

It's not easy being a missionary, even with the key to the cosmos in your hand.

The author attributes part of the Carter-Reagan divide to their respective attitudes toward the city from which they governed. Carter was deeply suspicious of its coziness. Reagan intended to enjoy his temporary home even while delivering it from its reigning ideology.

Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus.

It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams

My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.

Moses challenged parents both to teach the faith diligently and to maximize normal encounters or ongoing discussion.

Everything in Scripture is either preparation for the Gospel, presentation of the Gospel, or participation in the Gospel.

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.

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

We email, Facebook, tweet and text with people who are going to spend eternity in either heaven or hell. Our lives are too short to waste on mere temporal conversations when massive eternal realities hang in the balance. Just as you and I have no guarantee that we will live through the day, the people around us are not guaranteed tomorrow either. So let's be intentional about sewing the threads of the gospel into the fabric of our conversations every day, knowing that it will not always be easy, yet believing that eternity will always be worth it.

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)?

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

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.

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

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

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

My job is not to get between YOU and God. My job is to put your hand IN God's hand.