When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.

Without vision, a church devolves into a lukewarm, aimless organization characterized by infighting, budget grabbing and a dead heart for the lost.

Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? (Luke 6:46)

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

I want you to start realising how far away you are from being able to listen professionally.

You should feel so driven to help the world that it would weigh you down if a single person received anything but the best.

all lost people”.Don’t wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated...

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....

I’m not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you.

My business is anything that comes between men and the Spirit of God.

No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life.

The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve.

Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt...

What price are you willing to pay to see your church actively engaged in evangelism? Price? What do you mean by price? There is a cost for everything. One of the causes for evangelistic entropy...

If a sight of Christ’s outward glory might give a rational assurance of His divinity, why might not an apprehension of He is spiritual glory do so too?

We are called to go make disciples, but how do disciples live? How do we function in the world—in our marriages, families, schools and places of business? How do we live as salt and light...

But some of it (evangelistic persuasion) is going to come through service. The deficit that many Christians face is that people look at followers of Christ more for what they’re against than what they’re for.

It is not books on Christianity that will really trouble him (the materialist). But he would be troubled if, whenever he wanted a cheap popular introduction to some science, the best on the market was...

Religion is like a pair of shoes…..Find one that fits for you, but don’t make me wear your shoes.

You must have realised by now that when one really cares, really tries to help, the other party recognises the fact and, therefore, easily sees the logic in working together for the greater good, for...

In this world there are those who enjoy giving people balloons and there are those who take great pleasure in popping them. And I wish to be remembered as being firmly in the first party.

… we met with more closed doors than open ones — and the people who answered our knocks were invariably older. Young people didn’t aswner the door to strangers, who would undoubtedly be trying to...

The church tastes true delight, and the world only samples a counterfeit. Pastors cannot help but pull off the mask of worldly thinking and harmful societal developments as they preach and teach and disciple.

Author conveys contemporary respect for Methodist preachers who rode the circuit of frontier settlements to put themselves at risk for the Gospel near the Second Great Awakening. They were dubbed ‘God’s light artillery’.

I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors.

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

A Jesus Follower can explain our “One God in Three Persons” is like an “equilateral triangle”. Both have three, conjoined, and distinct but identical parts. This is a simple way to help non-Followers of Jesus...

Listening is a discipline. It’s all about being present at that moment in time.

Leadership is simply a well applied energy burst. If a leader is going to let his energy get depleted through not important and urgent activities that distracts every ministry, then there will not be any...

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.

If we teach Truth but not the Source of Truth, we don’t really succeed in passing on our faith.

obsessed” with sex. That’s why, historically, churches that liberalize on sex tend to liberalize themselves right out of Christianity itself.

I’ve heard it said many times when talking about going to heaven, ‘You can’t take it with you.’ It’s true that you cannot take with you your house, car, money, or other things you have...

The significant thing about Edwards is the way he enters into the tradition, infuses it with his personality and makes it live. The vitality of his thought gives to its product the value of unique...

I was so sure that I knew what they needed and what I wanted to sell them that I never stopped long enough to find out what it was they wanted to buy.

And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.

If evangelism is really going to be a value that your church embraces, the church will have to embrace the changes that will take place when evangelism is activated in the church.

Wanted: Steel toed Bible thumpers to reach a monster truck mad world.

The gospel of submission, commitment, decision, and victorious living is not good news about what God has achieved but a demand to save ourselves with God’s help. Besides the fact that Scripture never refers to...

There is nothing in the world or the Church — except the church’s disobedience — to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility.

The ease with which we can now get an audience for a discussion of religion does not prove that more people are becoming religious. What it really proves is the existence of a large “floating...

Radical obedience to Christ is not easy… It’s not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk...

In the past, I have all too often listened without hearing, asking questions when I had no intention of hearing the answer or understand my customer’s requirements.

I need a first-class reputation

What the gods are supposed to be, what the priests are commissioned to say, is not a sensational secret like what those running messengers of the Gospel had to say. Nobody else except those messengers...

Ancient wisdom collides with modern crises, equipping believers to image Christ in a world entranced with salvific knock-offs.

City of God interprets all of the human story, from Creation to the Last Judgment, as the drama of divine providence and human free choice, especially the choice between the two most fundamental options of...

The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God...

All topics should be studied through the lens of the Gospel.

Secularism drew a radical distinction between public and private life, in which religion, in any traditional sense, was relegated to the private sphere with no hold over public life. There are many charms in secularism,...