Jim Elliot Quotes

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

Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.

Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life.

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.

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

The most important thing to the Christian community is not the environment but evangelism.

I have this call in my heart to reach all people.

There isn't anything else more important than taking the gospel to the world.

We are soldiers of the cross, we've been found to reach the lost.

A person is either a missionary or a mission field.

The Church's mission is to spread hope "contagiously" among all peoples... It is only in this mission that the true journey of humanity is understood and attested.

So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.

Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church's crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity.

Proclaiming the gospel to all mankind is a fundamental part of the mission of the Church.

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

President Hinckley's strong, continuing challenge to us is retention, which requires full cooperation between the missionary, the leaders and members.

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations

The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that others are fine as they are: Muslims, Hindus and so forth. The Church can never retreat comfortably to within the limits of her own environment. She is charged with universal solicitude; she must be concerned with and for one and all... We must... as the Lord says - go out ever anew 'to the highways and hedges' (Luke 14:23), to deliver God's invitation to his banquet also to those who have so far heard nothing or have not been stirred within.

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

I come from a culture that embodies the need to convert others to "the truth." The Mormon Church has one of the largest missionary programs in the world. That does not interest me.

Evangelism was not a program in the Jerusalem church; it was a way of life. The believers' lives and behaviors created such favor with the population of Jerusalem that people we drawn to the Lord.

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.

The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.

It is the Paraclete Spirit, the "Comforter", who grants us the courage to take to the streets of the world, bringing the Gospel! The Holy Spirit makes us look to the horizon and drive us to the very outskirts of existence in order to proclaim life in Jesus Christ. Let us ask ourselves: do we tend to stay closed in on ourselves, on our group, or do we let the Holy Spirit open us to mission?

There is nothing colder than a Christian who does not seek to save others.