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

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Mark Dever
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 28
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the United States of America
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A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood.
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I think it's unhelpful to suggest that the task of evangelism is essentially the responsibility of ministers.
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The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel.
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Unbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture.
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As a pastor, I have the opportunity every week to share the gospel publicly in a way that most of the members sitting in our church do not. However, that doesn't absolve them of the responsibility for reaching others with the gospel.
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Discipling involves instruction and imitation.
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The church is the gospel made visible.
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As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring success not in terms of numbers but in terms of fidelity to the Scriptures.
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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.
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Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation.
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We do not fail in our evangelism if we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not subsequently converted we fail only if we do not faithfully tell the gospel at all.
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There is simply so much reason to believe the good news of Jesus Christ in history, in Scripture, as well as in our own experience that it would take a leap of faith not to believe in the gospel.
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God can use even stray, honest comments to bring people to himself.
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Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust in Him.
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I think that there are many things in the New Testament that show us that the godliness of our conversation plays an important evangelistic role. The apostles are clear that we mustn't limit the explicit sharing of the gospel to formal preaching. It can also happen in ordinary conversations.
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Christians are defined not by our heritage, but by our mission not by our blood, but by His.
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Worldliness in the church is a lot more pervasive than a lack of passion for evangelism. Nevertheless, one of the results of worldliness is a waning enthusiasm for evangelism.
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If you need wisdom and guidance, then pray to the Lord to guide you.
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Every believer should evangelize. I know some Christians think that evangelism is only for people with special gifts for it, but I don't believe the New Testament teaches that. While Paul does say that some believers have the call to be evangelists, all of us have the responsibility of evangelism.
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Forgetfulness of God's grace is one of the greatest tools in the enemy's war against our souls.
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