Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel unto every creature.

Our Lord Jesus Christ (Mk. 16:15)

Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

 Our Lord Jesus Christ (Matt. 4:19)

Reckon then that to acquire soul-winning power, you will have to go through mental torment and soul distress. You must go into the fire if you are going to pull others out of it, and you will have to dive into the floods if you are going to draw others out of the water. You cannot work a fire escape without feeling the scorch of the conflagration, nor man a lifeboat without being covered with the waves.

Charles Spurgeon

It is of no use for any of you to try to be soul-winners if you are not bearing fruit in your own lives. How can you serve the Lord with your lips if you do not serve Him with your lives? How can you preach His gospel with your tongues, when with hands, feet, and heart you are preaching the devil’s gospel, and setting up an antichrist by your practical unholiness?

Charles Spurgeon

It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions.

John Mott

The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.

Carl F. H. Henry

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

David Livingstone

He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

Jim Elliot

Every effort to win a soul is an act of war.

Anonymous

Soul winning is not pushing people; it is pushing truth.

Anonymous

Often you have to wrestle with the sinner until the truth pins deception to the ground.

Anonymous

You have the truth regardless of how sinners try to shame you for believing it.

Anonymous

It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!

Isobel Kuhn

Do not cower from your text; press it until the sinner realizes the truth of it.

Anonymous

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

Samuel Zwemer

'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. 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 true greatness of any church is not how many it seats but how many it sends!

Anonymous

I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him [dead Lazarus] to my father’s house: for I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

A Rich Man Now in Hell (Lk. 16:27-28)

Meditate on what you have in Christ! If the Gospel is not good news to you will the Gospel be good news to them?

Anonymous