Sermon Illustrations

Tag: evangelism

  • Sitting on the bench

    Down the hill from Wigglesworth’s home was the beautiful Manningham Park, a public park with lovely flower gardens. I cannot pass by that place today without remembering Wigglesworth and the people he blessed there. When he was home, it was usual for him to go to the park and sit for a while. Often someone…

  • The judge’s choice

    Charles Finney, lawyer and evangelist, was speaking in a New York church in the 1830s. At the end of each evening, he gave people the opportunity to come to the front of the room and commit their life to Jesus. A great many lawyers came to hear him. One night, the Chief Justice of New…

  • 80%

    Michael Green estimates that 80% or more of evangelism in the early church was done not by ministers or evangelists, but by ordinary Christians identifying and explaining themselves to their oikos-their network of relatives and close associates. Michael GreenClick to TweetFrom the book “Evangelism in the early church” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Learning place

    The meeting place is the learning place for the market place Mike PilavachiClick to Tweet

  • Community

    People are open to community before they’re open to conversion. Todd AdkinsClick to TweetWebsite: https://newchurches.com/episode-102-maximizing-community-events-and-engagement/

  • You are ordained!

    You cannot say you are not ordained. You were ordained when you signed Articles of War, under the blessed Flag. If not, I ordain every man, woman and child here present that has received the new life. I ordain you now. I cannot get at you to lay my hands upon you. I ordain you…

  • Evangelism

    Evangelism is joining the conversation God is already having with a person. You don’t meet someone to talk by accident. God is committed to them Naeem FazalClick to Tweet

  • Not alone

    A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone. J.C. RyleClick to TweetFrom the book “Holiness” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • In the past, the church

    In the past, the church focused on only one conversion. In the future, unbelievers you are leading to Christianity will need to go through three different conversions in sequence: Conversion to you, Conversion to community, Conversion to Christ. Ed StetzerClick to Tweet

  • The church of the future

    The church of the future that is incarnational is interested more in the harvest than in the barn. Ed StetzerClick to Tweet