evangelism

I__e heard it said many times when talking about going to heaven, __ou can__ take it with you._ It__ true that you cannot take with you your house, car, money, or other things you have valued here on earth, but how about your husband, wife, parents, children, friends, and acquaintances? You personally will never be able to get someone into heaven, but God certainly can use you as a tool to spread the good news as He brings more people to Himself.

To touch the heart of heaven, win a soul for heaven!

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.

I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.

Lordship and rapport are the keys to save us from being combative and make us more attractive in spiritual conversations.

If Christians insist only on condemning what they don't like, they will cut themselves off from that shared cultural life.

After the original rapture of conversion had settled in, (Bob) Dylan backed away from his obviously Christian lyrics and returned to his more metaphorical use of language.

Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.

He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime.

Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.

Beginning with sin instead of creation is like trying to read a book by opening it in the middle: You don__ know the characters and can__ make sense of the plot.

I recall Decimus instructing me while at work that wrong friends will make my heart yearn for sin more than it usually does. Compromises will be easier and wisdom will be replaced with folly. I just figured that they didn__ know him, and therefore were judging him. Plus, I told them that Erebus _was interested in becoming a Christian, and that was the basis of our friendship. My biggest mistake was when I told John that Jesus spent time with sinners far worse than Erebus. __h foolishness, you forget I was with Jesus when he was in the homes and company of sinners,_ John chided. __esus did not come to make friends, but to call sinners to repent. Do that long enough and let__ see how many friends you pick up_His visits were hardly a social call_He did not save any lost soul by living like that lost soul_until Erebus sees Christ in you, you are guilty of leading him astray as I__ afraid he is leading you astray...As I see it, friendships are grown when you are all going in the same direction, and can help, encourage and protect all involved. Friendships are not to be reckless, but constructive and purposeful where you are building each other up and improving each other__ character. If this isn__ that inner, guiding principle of all the friends you hold, then in what direction is it actually going, and what good will be derived from it? If friends are not making each other better, then they__e fulfilling the role of our spiritual enemy by tearing down what is good and ruining what had potential_

We're a divided country on sexual issues. That's why every news cycle brings more controversy.

We do some of our best work in evangelism when we make sure people understand the wrath of God against them, that their plight is desperate because God is angry. The problem of unreached and unengaged peoples is not that they don't have the gospel - that's the solution. Their plight is that they face a God who is rightly angry with them because of their sin. ("Cross", p. 35)

If I am not master of my life, not sultan of my own being, then no man's logic and no man's ecstatic fits may force me to find less silly my impossibly silly position: that of God's slave; no, not his slave even, but just a match which is aimlessly struck and then blown out by some inquisitive child, the terror of his toys.

If I were a blind man and were told by you that you possess a faculty called sight, I should be unreasonable if I railed at you as a conceited enthusiast.

The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track.