We can't know at any given time how God will bless our faithful witness. So the apparent numerical growth of the church is never a good guide to how faithful we have been in evangelism.

What really concerns me is for Christians to understand the fundamentals of evangelism in a way that is helpful in the contemporary scene.

I'll tell you what's more important than all the commentaries in your library: prayer.

The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel.

If you are not a member of the church you regularly attend, you may well be going to hell.

There are opportunities around. It takes time and motivation to take them.

If you say that the gospel lays a claim upon people, then you are invading their personal space, and they feel as though you have no right to be there. Now we don't even begin preaching the gospel until we get into their personal space and they feel the demands of God upon them.