Dallas Willard Quotes

Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism.

American churches work very hard at reaching out to people to bring them in.

The church that doesn't want to grow is saying to the world, "go to hell."

I would like a more missionary church,Not so much a tranquil church, but a beautiful church that goes forward.

The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply

The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

What is happening within Christianity is that it doesn't know it needs to promote itself.

If you really want to experience God, go and make disciples.

I am doing a lot of work for my church, taking an evangelism class, doing a lot of reading - mostly the Bible and things that coordinate with the Bible and go with the evangelism class.

I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

The Church must introduce the individual Christian into an encounter with Jesus Christ and bring Christians into His presence in the sacrament.

The responsibility to do missionary work rests with every member of the Church.

Our No. 1 goal on this Earth is to make disciples. That's the only job we want to do.

My prayer for ORU is this, that this university may become the fertile womb for the next generation of Holy Spirit evangelists, to build his eternal kingdom.

It is not that the Church hasn't been trained in evangelism; it is not a lack of instruction or information. The fact is, if you don't love people through the eyes of Christ, the world will never be changed.

A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will grow a great church.

Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples.

Just as the superstar pastor model can have its problems once the superstar pastor gets old or has a scandal or something, the house church model... there's a reason that the house churches of the New Testament era grew up into a more institutional faith down the road.

Jesus said, 'Go ... and make disciples,' not converts to your opinions.