Clayton Christensen Quotes

We need preachers. We need men who believe that this task and women who believe that this task is so great that not all the strategies in the world can make one soul converted.

The best means of preaching the gospel is by personal contact.

We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

Opportunities for sharing the gospel are everywhere.

My views of the missionary object are, indeed, different from what they were when I was first set on fire by Buchanan's 'Star in the East' six years ago. But it does not always happen that a closer acquaintance with an object diminishes our attachment and preference.

Amboyna seems to present the most favorable opening. Fifty thousand souls are there perishing without the means of life, and the situation of the island is such that a mission there established might, with the blessing of God, be extended to the neighboring islands in those seas.

Evangelism is selling a dream.

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

Think of someone you know who's not saved but you may be afraid to share the Gospel with that person. I've found a way that's radically effective in training people to share the Gospel.

My church is the world! I want to bring the gospel to as broad and as interesting an audience as possible.

During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God's responsibility to make people receptive; it is our responsibility to sow the seed.

Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.

We all have the opportunity to share the gospel and we should - that's what we were called to do.

Let me tell you something: being broke ain't going to make nobody come to the Gospel.

We have never found, and I think we never shall find, an adequate substitute for the situation in which two wholesome young men meet with a family, reason with them, teach them, testify to them, and pray with them. We shall always need missionaries.

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 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.

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.

I’ve seen far too many Christians who are more than willing to travel halfway around the world to volunteer for a week in an orphanage, but who cannot bring themselves to take the personal risk of sharing Jesus with the co-worker who sits day after day in the cubicle right next to them.

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

The only way to convert a heathen is to travel into the jungle.

We must prepare ourselves to assist the missionaries in finding those of our Heavenly Father's children who will embrace the message of the Restoration.

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