Quotes about Engagement

So is it not only that a person has to respond, pray, accept, believe, trust, confess, and do—but also that someone else has to act, teach, travel, organize, fund-raise, and build so that the person can know what to respond, pray, accept, believe, trust, confess, and do?

The first thing you have to do is throw yourself into whatever it is you're doing.

Throwing yourself into it begins with being grateful that you even have something to throw yourself into.

The measure of a sermon is not whether it affirms what you already believe. A sermon is not a product to be consumed and then evaluated according to how good it was or whether it was pleasing or enjoyable.

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

We have to assess: Are we making disciples along the way as we draw people to our churches?

Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.

The church exists for the sake of those outside it.