If we never do any work for Christ except when we feel up to the mark, we shall not do much. If we feel that we will not pray because we cannot pray, we shall never pray.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from The Soul Winner
Evangelism
When you’re on fire, everyone knows it – Leonard Ravenhill
You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there’s a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Lifeboat or a Cruise Ship? – Leonard Ravenhill
The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
The Church needs to move the world – GK Chesterton
We do not want a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
– GK Chesterton –
Living not for self – William Temple
The Church is the only society that exists for the benefit of those who are not its members.
– William Temple –
Called to Missions or to Stay at Home? – Hudson Taylor
It will not do to say that you have no special call to go to the mission field. With these facts before you and with the command of the Lord Jesus to go and preach the gospel to every creature, you need rather to ascertain whether you have a special call to stay at home.
– Hudson Taylor –
Praying for revival – Arthur Pink
It’s true that (many) are praying for a worldwide revival. But it would be more timely, and more scriptural, for prayer to be made to the Lord of the harvest, that He would raise up and thrust forth laborers who would fearlessly and faithfully preach those truths which are calculated to bring about a revival.
– Arthur Pink –
A demonstration of the supernatural – Duncan Campbell
The average man is not going to be impressed by our publicity, our posters or our programs, but let there be a demonstration of the supernatural in the realm of religion, and at once man is arrested.
– Duncan Campbell –
Missionary or Imposter? – Charles Spurgeon
Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.
– Charles Spurgeon –