Archive — evangelism

“I got a call from a reporter…and he started asking me about same-sex marriage. After about five minutes of grilling me on same-sex marriage, ‘Now I want to ask you a question. Why is this all [conservative evangelicals] talk about?’ And I said, ‘Let me remind you of something. I didn’t call you this morning and interrupt your day to talk about same-sex marriage, you called me, you asked me these questions’….So, a part of this is just a matter of perception. People keep saying, ‘Well you conservative evangelicals only talk about this’….We do care about many other issues but that’s not what the media is asking us about.” - Albert Mohler

“…there are exceptions, but the goal of most religion reporters is to be warm and cuddly perhaps about other religions like Buddhism, but not anything like that in relation to Christianity, perhaps, even to increase the general antagonism and fear and suspicion of Christianity,” Marvin Olasky.

“In Christianity, the superficiality is such that..if someone sees a face of Jesus in a pizza, that can be a story, but as far as getting into what Jesus actually taught, and the way that changes lives, that is a rarity,” Marvin Olasky.

“If you are evangelizing your Jewish neighbor or anyone else who works with you, then it is important to know where is he coming from…,” Marvin Olasky.

“Missionary dating is…when a Christian begins dating an unbeliever and thinks that they have an opportunity maybe through this dating relationship to lead them to the Lord. So, they rationalize and justify,”Oh yeah, the Bible says don’t become unequally yoked and, sure, we are dating and headed toward a more permanent relationship, but, you know, we’re sort of an exception to the rule because, oh, he’s so close, and he’s so open, and I just know that if we get married that certainly he is going to come to Christ in short order.”

“It is important to diagnose where you spouse is, sort of along the continuum of disbelief so that you can customize your approach and you can recognize opportunities that might arise to be able to share the gospel with them…we try to give a prescription for every one of these kind of categories to suggest some ways in which you can reach out if your spouse is a cynical, a skeptical, a spectator, or a seeker.”

“I saw Jesus as my rival. You know, I had always been the guy in Leslie’s life. We had been childhood sweethearts, grew up together, got married young, and now all of a sudden there was another man in our relationship, and she worshipped this guy…”

“It is ironic that usually introducing God into a situation is going to make things better but in our case, it was as if Jesus became a barrier between us because I was an atheist…”