Mark Dever Quotes About Evangelism

Quotes about: Evangelism

• We do not fail in our evangelism if we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not subsequently converted; we fail only if we do not faithfully tell the gospel at all.

  Mark Dever

  Failing, Evangelism, Ifs

• Evangelism is not imposing anything on anyone; it is simply sharing the truth.

  Mark Dever

  Evangelism, Imposing

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• Every believer should evangelize. I know some Christians think that evangelism is only for people with special gifts for it, but I don't believe the New Testament teaches that. While Paul does say that some believers have the call to be evangelists, all of us have the responsibility of evangelism.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Believe, Responsibility

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• Advice on evangelism needs to be tailored to individual situations. For instance, I know someone who needs to be encouraged to speak less and work more. That would be a better testimony for him because he has certainly let his work colleagues know about Jesus. It's not that I don't want him to witness about Jesus, but I have a lot of sympathy for his employer. He is paying for work to be done.

  Mark Dever

  Jesus, Speak Less, Advice

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• I do want to pray for the Lord to glorify himself and, yes, I also will pray for an outpouring of his Spirit, but I also will rejoice in what he is doing now, and I will try to be a faithful steward of the gospel by preaching it "in season and out of season", as Paul reminds us. So I want to be careful not to make an idol out of revival, or to rely upon it to the point where I don't plan for evangelism.

  Mark Dever

  Idols, Rely Upon, Faithful

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• What really concerns me is for Christians to understand the fundamentals of evangelism in a way that is helpful in the contemporary scene.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Fundamentals, Way

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• The important thing when you are tied down is to continue to model Christ's love. This will ensure that your words, perhaps spoken long ago, will have fresh relevance, or it will help little ones to understand what it means to live the Christian life in days to come. A life well-lived in these circumstances can be hugely useful in evangelism.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Mean, Long Ago

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• We live in a time when people are increasingly skittish about evangelism - Christians and non-Christians alike. People are suspicious of evangelism, and misunderstand it, which contributes to our reluctance to share the gospel. When you add our fear of others' reactions as well as our natural laziness to the equation, it's not hard to see why we make such little progress in sharing our faith.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, People, Progress

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• I think it's unhelpful to suggest that the task of evangelism is essentially the responsibility of ministers.

  Mark Dever

  Responsibility, Thinking, Tasks

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• Evangelism is not simply looking at someone and saying, "Look, you have to become a Christian". Instead, an evangelist tells us the truth about who God is, and explains where we stand as a result of that. People can ignore us - indeed, they have every legal right to do so.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, People, Looks

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• I don't see a clerical class in the New Testament to which evangelism has been delegated. Preaching is not the only way to evangelize; it can happen in everyday conversations too. And you don't need a special gift to witness to the Lord in these situations.

  Mark Dever

  Class, Everyday, Special

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• People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense.

  Mark Dever

  Ideas, Differences, People

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• The difference between apologetics and evangelism is that in apologetics, you are answering objections that the world raises, whereas in evangelism, you are bringing the message that Christ brought. So unbelievers tend to set the agenda in apologetics, and you set the agenda in evangelism.

  Mark Dever

  Differences, Agendas, World

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• Worldliness in the church is a lot more pervasive than a lack of passion for evangelism. Nevertheless, one of the results of worldliness is a waning enthusiasm for evangelism.

  Mark Dever

  Passion, Church, Enthusiasm

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• We can't know at any given time how God will bless our faithful witness. So the apparent numerical growth of the church is never a good guide to how faithful we have been in evangelism.

  Mark Dever

  Faithful, Growth, Church

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• If you think that the gospel is all about what we can do, that the practice of it is optional, and that conversion is simply something that anyone can choose at any time, then I'm concerned that you'll think of evangelism as nothing more than a sales job where the prospect is to be won over to sign on the dotted line by praying a prayer, followed by an assurance that he is the proud owner of salvation.

  Mark Dever

  Jobs, Prayer, Thinking

• Unfortunately, many of our churches calibrate their life to these nominal Christians. The predictable result is that you get fake, hypocritical churches that confuse the message of the gospel and make it hard for others who are trying to do genuine evangelism.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Fake, Church

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• I assume that normally the Lord will be bringing people to himself through the instrumentality of the preached word. However, we have to be very careful that we don't assume that if we are 'X' faithful in evangelism, then we will see 'Y' results right now. It doesn't work like that.

  Mark Dever

  People, Faithful, Assuming

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