Revival Blog

A little while ago there was a post on the Evangelical Outpost titled Fads and Fixtures: Seven Deadly Trappings of Evangelism. In the article, Joe railed against everything from preaching to the lost to telling your testimony to friends. I was somewhat agast. Shane over at wesleyblog responded with his thoughts which were more evangelical than Joe but perhaps not as radical as mine (there is room for that in the Body). I left a response to Joe’s article stating my disagreement with his stand. I dropped the whole affair till I read Gerry Charlotte Phelps: GUYS, YOU REMIND ME OF MYSELF Talk about a gracious response. In it, she dealt with the core reason why people don’t witness, fear. But in it all, I was reminded of something that G Campbell Morgan said,

To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.

In that vein, I thought I would post some other people’s thoughts on the matter. Here they go.

“This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.” - Jesus
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on earth. –John Wesley
“‘Not called!’ did you say? ‘Not heard the call,’ I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father’s house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world.” - William Booth
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world. C. S. Lewis
“A tiny group of believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.” - K.P. Yohannan
EVANGELISM is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread. D. T. Niles
The world has more winnable people than ever before but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed. Donald H. Mcgannon
To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction. G. Campbell Morgan
The greatest hindrances to the evangelization of the world are those within the church. John R. Mott
EVANGELISM as the New Testament describes it is not child’s play. EVANGELISM is work, often hard work. Yet it is not drudgery. It puts person in good humor, and makes him truly human. Oswald C. Hoffman
Being an extrovert isn’t essential to EVANGELISM–obedience and love are. Rebecca M. Pippert
EVANGELISM is the spontaneous overflow of a glad and free heart in Jesus Christ. Robert Munger
It is my hearts desire that I must be NO more, that He be KNOWN more. Saheed B. Olalekan - (Christian converted from Islam)
If sinners are to be damned, let them leap over our bodies to do so. Charles H. Spurgeon
I have but one passion: It is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ. — Count Nicolaus Ludwn Zinzendorf
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. –C. S. Lewis
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed — Hudson Taylor
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell. — C.T. Studd
We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first. — Oswald J. Smith
Someone asked will the heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved? It is more a question with me whether we — who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not — can be saved. — Charles Spurgeon
It is now possible to live a “christian life” without doing the things that Jesus commanded us to do. “We have hired people to go into all the world, to visit those in prison, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to care for widows and orphans. The average Christian doesn’t have to do it.–Cal Thomas
Sympathy is no substitute for action.– David Livingstone,
He is not seeking a powerful people to represent HIM. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength. — Graham Cooke
I don’t know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he’d choose the starving kids in Haiti.–Tony Campolo
While women weep, as they do now, I’ll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now I’ll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I’ll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I’ll fight-I’ll fight to the very end! –William Booth
To silence a preacher from preaching judgment is like being awoke from sleep by a fire alarm, and just silencing the alarm, and going back to sleep. –Unknown
If you teach men that God is the source of their pleasure and sin is the source of their pain, they will run to God and away from sin.– Jacquelyn K. Heasley
In every revival there is a re-emphasis of the Church’s missionary character. Men return to Calvary, and the world is seen afresh through the eyes of Christ. The infinite compassion of Christ fills the heart, and the passion evoked by Calvary demands the whole wide world as the fruit of His sacrifice. –John Shearer

And there you go.

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