The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was “Repent.” He said that to five out of seven.
– Vance Havner –
(see Revelation 2-3)
Evangelism
What Revival Does – Charles Finney
A revival breaks the power of the world and of sin over Christians. It brings them to such vantage ground that they get a fresh impulse toward heaven. They have a new foretaste of heaven and new desires after union with God; and the charm of the world is broken, and the power of sin overcome. When the churches are thus awakened and reformed, the reformation and salvation of sinners will follow, going through the same stages of conviction, repentance, and reformation. Their hearts will be broken down and changed. Very often the most abandoned profligates are among the subjects. Harlots and drunkards and infidels and all sorts of abandoned characters are awakened and converted. The worst among human beings are softened, and reclaimed, and made to appear as lovely specimens of the beauty of holiness. “O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known, in wrath remember mercy” ( Hab. 3:2).
– Charles G. Finney –
The Invasion of the World Into the Church – John R. Mott
The invasion of the Church by the world is a menace to the extension of Christ’s Kingdom. In all ages conformity to the world by Christians has resulted in lack of spiritual life and a consequent lack of spiritual vision and enterprise. A secularized or self-centered Church can never evangelize the world.
– John R. Mott –
Lost Men Leading Lost Men to a Lost Eternity – Leonard Ravenhill
We have in false cults a horrible picture of lost men seeking lost men to lead them to a lost eternity.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Confronting Somebody About Sin – Crawford Loritts
Whenever we have to confront somebody about sin, there ought to be a little bit of a tear in our heart, if not in our eyes. We need to be reminded that but for the grace of God, the capacity for sin in us could break out.
– Crawford Loritts –
What a Christian Is – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
The Underground Christian – Richard Wurmbrand
Christianity has become dramatic with us. When Christians in free countries win a soul for Christ, the new believer may become a member of a quietly living church. But when those in captive nations win someone, we know that he may have to go to prison and that his children may become orphans. The joy of having brought someone to Christ is always mixed with this feeling that there is a price that must be paid. We had met an entirely new type of Christian—the Christian of the Underground Church.
– Richard Wurmbrand –
from Tortured for Christ
What Are We Winning People To? – AW Tozer
Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, “But we are winning them!” And winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To nobility of character? To a despising of the world’s treasures? To hard self-discipline? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is no.
– AW Tozer –
Make Hell & Heaven Real In Our Lives – Hudson Taylor
Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men go there.
– Hudson Taylor –