One of my favourite books about Evangelism was written by Lionel B. Fletcher, a famous Australian evangelist who ministered from before until after the Second World War. Here are some quotes. See what you think. Dale
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The central aim of the real Church of Christ should be evangelism. It is certain that, in proportion to the absence of evangelism in any church, that church is not fulfilling the whole will of the Master. We may have had blessing in past days, built up an organisation which is now carried on by sheer weight of its own machinery, and yet that church which was once alive may now be dead.
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Prayer and power interlock. Prevailing with God comes before prevailing with men. The hardest part of spiritual development is to keep consistently to your prayer life, yet everything else depends on this, for prayer is to the spiritual man what the mainspring is to a watch.... I would plead with you above all things to become men and women of prayer.
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EM Bounds said, ’Men are looking for better methods, but God is looking for better men.’ Once a church excludes vital prayer from its life, the bell has tolled out its first note, warning the world, “This church is dead.”
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I believe with all my heart and soul that direct evangelism must be put at the forefront of the life of the Church.
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Why are so few making any impact on the unconverted world outside the Church? It seems certain that this is not what Christ meant when he said, ‘Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel.’ It can be affirmed without hesitation that, if the Church in Jerusalem had been content to minister only to the first disciples and their families, as so many local churches are doing today, and had not reached out with passionate earnestness to convert the outside world, the Christian religion would have died out in fifty years or less.