Vance Havner Quotes

The missionary question is not, 'Where are there unbelievers?' and then send a missionary there. There are unbelievers everywhere! The missionary question is, 'Where are there people's who don't have any Christians in them or don't have a church strong enough to do the neighbor evangelism that we can do if we just want to do it?' That's the missionary question.

Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.

A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.

Share the Gospel. According to the Bible, it is every believer's privilege and responsibility to share the Gospel. If we understand what lies ahead for those who do not know Christ, there will be a sense of urgency in our witness.

If you are saved, the work is only half done until you are employed to bring others to Christ.

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

The love shown in Christ by our God to mankind should constrain all of us who are followers and disciples of Christ to do all in our power to see to it that the Message of Salvation is carried to those of our fellows for whom Christ Our Saviour was sacrificed but who have not had the benefit of hearing the good news.

It is now possible to live a "christian life" without doing the things that Jesus commanded us to do. We have hired people to go into all the world, to visit those in prison, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to care for widows and orphans. The average Christian doesn't have to do it.

I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don't need the gospel, it's simple what non-Christian people need in order to be saved.

God intends that everyone who has embraced the gospel become a part of the great enterprise of spreading the gospel.

I understand that what I am to do is to be a bridge between the people who would never set foot in a church in their entire lives and people who would like to get them there. So I write books that Christians can give to their non-Christian friends that they will actually read.

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

Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she bears witness to God’s love. Be missionaries of God’s tenderness!

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

We are all missionaries. Wherever we go we either bring people nearer to Christ or we repel them from Christ.

There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

I believe that we are given an order by Jesus. One of the last things he did was to spread the word of God and he being the basis for our salvation. Christians are supposed to be evangelicals. And I am.

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

There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.

If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it is concerning missions. If there be anything about which we cannot tolerate lukewarmness,it is the matter of sending the gospel to a dying world.

You measure a church's strength, not by its seating capacity but by its sending capacity.

This is the mission of every Christian: lumina pandit - to spread the light and to tell the world of God's love.

Christians are supposed to be evangelicals. And I am. I am evangelical.

Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!

I want to dedicate the rest of my life to spreading the love of Christ. Because God has done so much for me and has given me this platform to speak into millions of lives, I feel it is my duty...