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The job of the evangelist is never easy.
I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.
What is a godly pastor, after all, but one who is like God, with a heart of grace; someone who sees God bringing prodigals home and runs to embrace them, weeps for joy that they have been brought home, and kisses them - asking no questions - no qualifications or conditions required?
Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith.
The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.
True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute, it serves those that harm it, it binds up that which is wounded, it has become all things to all creatures.
Angry, judgmental, and critical people don't make good evangelists.
From the experience of these years Dr. Lloyd-Jones was immovably confirmed in a truth which he had first seen in the New Testament. It was that evangelism is pre-eminently dependent upon the quality of the Christian life which is known and enjoyed in the church.
My dad was a Methodist minister.
It is important always to know that the first word, the true initiative, the true activity comes from God and only by inserting ourselves into the divine initiative, only begging for this divine initiative, shall we too be able to become - with him and in him - evangelizers.
Qualifications of a pastor: the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros
4 The four evangelists do not spare us the
Missionaries can take nothing greater to the heathen world than the impress and reflection of the Love of God upon their own character.
The chief business of the Christian minister.
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'.
This is the ministry and its work
not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks.
A minister may be diligent in his work, regular in his family, resident with his people and attentive to them, and in many respects exemplary in his outward conduct, and yet not preach Jesus Christ, and him crucified.32
When evangelizers rise from prayer, their hearts are more open; freed of self-absorption, they are desirous of doing good and sharing their lives with others.
The world is in a mad dash of personal peace and affluence. Sadly, too often the evangelical church is not much different. Of course, we want our children to become Christians. But that is just an addition to the all-consuming goal, that they would attain their own personal peace and affluence.
Sometimes, by celebrating the evangelical heroes of the faith, we have inadvertently communicated something false: if it's not big and audacious and officially sanctioned, it's not good enough for God.
You're either a missionary or a mission field.
I am a missionary, heart and soul.
Rare benevolence, the minister of God.
He's a minister. Seems nice.
[Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the command of the Lord Jesus Christ himself
Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman.
The evangelical task primarily is the preaching of the Gospel, in the interest of individual regeneration by the supernatural grace of God, in such a way that divine redemption can be recognized as the best solution of our problems, individual and social
We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow-citizens, usually by force; the messianic delusion is our national disease.
Successful evangelism involves not only harvesting, but sowing and watering, too. We must never think that because a nonbeliever remained unconvinced by our case that our apologetic has failed. For one encounter is not the end of the story.
Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she bears witness to God's love. Be missionaries of God's tenderness!
As a pastor our main ministry is exhortation.
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.
The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows.
A minister of Jesus Christ should not be regardless of his attitude. If he is the representative of Jesus Christ, his deportment, his attitude, his gestures, should be of that character which will not strike the beholder with disgust.
Evangelism and the local church are inseparable. It's like the Good Samaritan seeking an inn for the one he rescued.
perfect Christian characters, seeking by diligent study and earnest prayer to gain the training essential for acceptable service in the cause of God.
Some evangelists spend too much time thinking and even planning about how to achieve visible results. This is an easy trap to fall into.
During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective, ...
Born again atheist, practicing troublemaker
Johnny Appleseed was revered . he was ... an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).
Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.
The bigger-is-better form of evangelism may have passed, .. The emerging generation has been so advertised, media-tised and oversold that the smaller, quieter and more authentic is the growing edge of their experience.
I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!
An "apostle" [is] one who is called and sent by Christ to have the spiritual authority, character, gifts and abilities to successfully reach and establish people in Kingdom truth and order, especially through founding and overseeing local churches.
The only way into a ministry that sees people's lives change, that brings joy and power and electricity without authoritarianism, is through preaching the gospel to deconstruct both legalism and relativism.
Making Disciples through the Transforming Power of Jesus Christ in the Spirit of Excellence!
Evangelism is a cross in the heart of God.
Our evangelistic task is not to persuade people that the gospel was made for their felt needs, but that they were made for the soul-satisfying glory of God in the gospel.
A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
Every Christian should be a faithful minister and steward of God
Prayer and temptation, the Bible and meditation, make a true minister of the gospel.
In the month of October, the universal Church highlights her missionary vocation. Guided by the Holy Spirit she knows she is called to pursue the work of Jesus himself, proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom of God which is "righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit"
Authentic Christian Preaching carries a note of authority and a demand for decisions not found elsewhere in society.
An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world.
You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.
Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to those with hard hearts and blind eyes.
Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world.
Donald Coggan's wisdom: "When true preaching takes place, the main actor is not the preacher, nor the congregation, but the Holy Spirit."15
preacher's tone:
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
The pursuit of holiness is thus no mere private hobby, nor merely a path for a select few, but a vital element in Christian mission strategy today. The world's greatest need is the personal holiness of Christian people.
I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.
A man cannot be a faithful minister, until he preaches Christ for Christs sake - until he gives up striving to attract people to himself and seeks only to attract them to Christ.
Guy Kawasaki, "The essence of evangelism is to passionately show people how you can make history together. Evangelism
The preacher must have, bonds of a servant with the spirit of a king, a king in high, royal, independent bearing, with the simplicity and sweetness of a child.
A priest? I said.
A monk or some such. One of those worker guys. Liberation theowhateveritis.
Theologian, said the other.
One of those guys who thinks that Jesus was on welfare.
Ministry is being one of theses sent out ones, a labourer of love.
Every Christian should become an ambassador of Christ ... every Christian should be so intoxicated with Christ and so filled with holy fervor that nothing could ever quench his [passion] ... Let us capture some of the magnificent obsession that [the] early Christians had!
We are pastorally-focused, not politically driven. We are relationally-focused, not program driven. We are discipleship-focused, not change driven. We are partnership-focused, not empire driven.
Christians are supposed to be evangelicals. And I am. I am evangelical.
To be a minister of the Word in any capacity, one MUST experience a call.
The decision to stand unapologetically for the gospel has been tantamount to a new conversion. It brings peace; it dissolves fears; it snaps fingers at ridicule.
Perhaps I should have been one [some sort of a professional religious]; I like to think a monk notable for his austerities, the voice of one crying in the wilderness; but more probably a tiresome Unitarian in Walsall who writes incessantly to the local paper.
A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.
In vain do we seek to awaken our churches to zeal in evangelism as a separate thing. To be genuine it must flow from love to Christ. It is when a sense of personal communion with the Son of God is highest that we shall be most fit for missionary work, either ourselves or to stir up others.
In vain a zealous evangelist with a fely hat and flowing tie threads his way through the crowd, crying without cease: 'God is great and good. Come unto Him.' On the contrary, they all make haste toward some trivial objective that seems of more immediate interest than God.
We are all missionary disciples
Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.
An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God.
I'm all for Spencer. He's sincere, idealistic, and a good preacher. I just don't believe that social action is the main business of the Church."
"Then what is?"
"Salvation.
Evangelical agencies with ready funding may have too little depth and vision to cope with the current conflict. God's kingdom is built not on perpetual motion, one-liners, and flashbulbs but on Christ.
This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
The great tasks facing the ecclesial community in the modern world - and among the many I particularly stress evangelization and ecumenism - are centered on the Word of God and, at the same time, draw therefrom their justification and support.
As Earl Lautenslager writes, "A minister without theology is like an engineer without physics or a doctor without anatomy. He'll kill you."[
J.C. Ryle is an evangelical champion ... One of the bravest and best of men.
My views of the missionary object are, indeed, different from what they were when I was first set on fire by Buchanan's 'Star in the East' six years ago. But it does not always happen that a closer acquaintance with an object diminishes our attachment and preference.
My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.
Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister.
I believe every minister of the gospel is called to this ministry first of all. The ministry of light, the ministry of destruction of darkness, the ministry of setting people free from ignorance.
evangelizing, proclaiming Jesus, gives us joy. In contrast, egoism makes us bitter, sad, and depresses us. Evangelizing uplifts us.
It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions.
Evangelical faith has the gospel of Christ for its foundation;
The secret of the missionary is ... I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.
Preach the Gospel with your life - without compromise!
Evangelical obedience is true in its essence, though not perfect in its degree; and where it comes short, Christ puts his merits into the scales, and then there is full weight.
No clergyman however brilliant, no evangelist no matter how eloquent or compelling, can bring about the revival we need. Only the Holy Spirit can do this.
Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!
The Gospel edifies and evangelizes at the same time.
The evangelistic ministry is a fight, not a frolic.
I feel a special calling to impart hope to the church I serve.