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By the grace of God I am what I am
Prayer is the preview of God's action.
The church is the gospel made visible.
Sin claims to free but in fact it kills.
Today is what the Lord has prepared you for.
Discipling involves instruction and imitation.
Our fears lie to us about how important they are.
Correct division should be preferred over corrupt unity.
Sometimes we have to wait a long time to see conversions.
We do live best in this world when we keep the next in mind.
If you are not offending people, then you are not an evangelist.
A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood.
God can use even stray, honest comments to bring people to himself.
If you need wisdom and guidance, then pray to the Lord to guide you.
Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation.
Avoiding the doctrine of Hell is one step away from denying it altogether.
There are opportunities around. It takes time and motivation to take them.
Your plans are fine, as long as you realize God has the right to change them.
Evangelism is not imposing anything on anyone; it is simply sharing the truth.
To evangelize properly by delivering the gospel, we need to follow God's agenda.
Unbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture.
I'll tell you what's more important than all the commentaries in your library: prayer.
The gospel of Christ has never needed the gimmicks of man to effect conversion in the soul
If you are not a member of the church you regularly attend, you may well be going to hell.
Christians are defined not by our heritage, but by our mission; not by our blood, but by His.
Keep going until you get good counsel that is persuasive for you that you should go elsewhere.
Forgetfulness of God's grace is one of the greatest tools in the enemy's war against our souls.
Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph.
If we feel that our ministry has come to an end in one place, then it seems reasonable to move on.
God’s Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people.
The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel.
There is no gospel without the offence. This is God's wisdom. It never seems sensible to us in our flesh.
I think it's unhelpful to suggest that the task of evangelism is essentially the responsibility of ministers.
For a Christian, our fears about the future are rooted in those places where our will differs from God's will.
God's eternal plan has always been to display his glory not just through individuals but through a corporate body.
Humility is not an 'added extra,' one of the lesser Christian virtues. If you don't have humility, you may be lost.
Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin.
We are all called to have faith. So all of us are called to evangelize, while some are specially gifted for this ministry.
People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense.
We should want to evangelize because of the joy that God puts in our hearts. Ultimately, that's the best reason for sharing our faith.
What really concerns me is for Christians to understand the fundamentals of evangelism in a way that is helpful in the contemporary scene.
Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust in Him.
We mustn't be content to just sit around pointing out the errors in others; we actually need to be sharing the gospel and praying for people to be converted.
We may be sinking in the North Atlantic in the most famous ship disaster of all time, but God can still use us to reach out and save others through our witness.
An evangelist no more imposes his views on others than a pilot imposes his views on his passengers when he lands a plane on a runway. I bet the passengers are glad!
We need the word proclaimed so that we hear the gospel clearly, but then it's also very natural to have people talk about the Christian faith in ordinary conversation.
If joy or urgency are missing from our presentation of the gospel, then our testimony to Christ will be missing that sort of fullness that we find in the New Testament.
From the time of Cain until the last believer before Christ's return, we are all fundamentally in the same boat. We suffer the same spiritual afflictions and tendencies.
It doesn't matter whether we live in the 19th or 21st centuries; we face the same basic problems that everyone who lives between the Fall and the return of Christ faces.
I guess I tend to see divine appointments everywhere. I am always on the alert for opportunities. So I prefer to err on the side of witnessing too often than not enough.