Joel Osteen Quotes

The only way a church is going to be relevant is to get out of its comfort zone and connect with unchurched people.

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

On day one, the Church wasn't for church people because there weren't any church people.

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.

Missionary work is but home teaching to those who are not now members of the Church, and home teaching is nothing more or less than missionary work to Church members

The church does not draw people in; it sends them out.

Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to their neighbors in need.

If you really believe in the message you're preaching, you want as many people as possible to listen.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

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

Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.

What is so attractive about Uganda for missionaries is that they have free rein. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, the parliament.

Daniel Kolenda is an outstanding preacher with a message of salvation. He knows how to throw the net out, and he knows how to pull it back in. Many people are coming to salvation as a result of it.

When someone comes along later and tries to preach the Gospel to them because they're living in the world, they won't listen.

We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel!

I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures. Because these need to get out!

Sometimes we go so focused on bringing people to the meetinghouse that we forget we are supposed to be bringing them to Christ.

I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.

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

I can't make people fall in love with Jesus, but I can arrange dates.

Some people come to me and say, "Mr. Moody, don't you feel a great responsibility when you come before an audience like this - don't you feel a great weight upon your shoulders?" "Well." I say, "no; I cannot convert men; I can only proclaim the Gospel.

It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because it is closed in on itself.

Where I can preach I do preach and where I can't I still preach with love but just not the normal words we usually use in church.