It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.
– Vance Havner –
Preaching
The Gift of Pentecost – Samuel Chadwick
I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were recorded. Pentecost registered three thousand souls. It is by fire that a holy passion is kindled in the soul whereby we live the life of God. The soul’s safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power Destitute of the Fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing Fire, nothing else matters.
– Samuel Chadwick –
Why the Church Exists – CS Lewis
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.
– CS Lewis –
Can We Go Too Fast In Saving Souls – William Booth
Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.
– William Booth –
Preaching and the Salvation of Lost Souls – Leonard Ravenhill
Isn’t it staggering when you think that one sermon on the day of Pentecost produced 3000 people? And we had some cities yesterday where 3000 sermons were preached and nobody was saved. And it doesn’t even faze us.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Charles Finney on Evangelism
Christian people, are you figuring round and round to get a little property, yet neglecting souls? Beware lest you ruin souls that can never live again! Do you say— “I thought they knew it all?” They reply to you, “I did not suppose you believed a word of it yourselves. You did not act as if you did. Are you going to heaven? Well, I am going down to hell! There is no help for me now. You will sometimes think of me then, as you shall see the smoke of my woe rising up darkly athwart the glorious heavens. After I have been there a long, long time, you will sometimes think that I, who once lived by your side, am there. O remember, you cannot pray for me then; but you will remember that once you might have warned and might have saved me.”
– Charles Finney –
Preach the Gospel – Charles Finney
Ministers often preach about the Gospel instead of preaching the Gospel. They often preach about sinners instead of preaching to them.
– Charles Finney –
Only God can make a Minister – John Newton
None but He who made the world can make a minister.
– John Newton –
Preach with Fire and Passion – Charles Spurgeon
Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.
– Charles Spurgeon –