Still not convinced whether you're ready to participate in next year's Global Witnessing Challenge?

Pause a few moments to reflect on the following comments of wise men and women; those who made the sharing of their faith with the lost by no means the least important pursuit of their lives:

"This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come." - Jesus

If your Gospel isn't touching others, it hasn't touched you! - Curry R. Blake

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I prefer to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell. - C.T. Studd

We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first. - Oswald J. Smith

As long as there are millions destitute of the Word of God and knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible for me to devote time and energy to those who have both. - J. L. Ewen

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him. - C.T. Studd

“Here am I.  Send me.” - Isaiah

I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light - John Keith Falconer

I have but one passion: It is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ. - Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf

Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell. - William Booth

Life is too short and hell is too hot to just play church. - Pastor Larry Osborne

I used to ask God to help me.  Then I asked if I might help Him.  I ended up by asking Him to do his work through me. - Hudson Taylor

And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."  - Jesus

The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become. - Henry Martyn

Someone asked “Will the heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved?” It is more a question with me whether we - who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not - can be saved. - Charles Spurgeon

I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done for China, I don't know who it was.  It must have been a man, a well-educated man.  I don't know what happened.  Perhaps he died.  Perhaps he wasn't willing, and God looked down and saw Gladys Aylward and God said - "Well, she's willing." - Gladys Aylward

Sympathy is no substitute for action. - David Livingstone

The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed. - Hudson Taylor

In the vast plain to the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has ever been.  Villages whose people are without Christ, without God, and without hope in the world. - Robert Moffat

No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once. - Oswald J. Smith

God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell! - Charles Spurgeon

What are we here for, to have a good time with Christians or to save sinners? - Malla Moe

I love to live on the brink of eternity. - David Brainerd

Preach abroad….it is cooping yourselves up in rooms that has dampened the work of God, which never was and never will be carried out to any purpose without going into the highways and hedges and compelling men and women to come in. - Jonathan Edwards

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on earth. - John Wesley

I will open Africa to the Gospel or die trying. - Rowland Bingham

I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself. - Matthew Henry

Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost, and yet to feel no anguish, shed no tears, know no travail! How little we know of the compassion of Jesus! - Oswald J. Smith

If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go. - A. A. Allen

We shall have all eternity in which to celebrate our victories, but we have only one swift hour before the sunset in which to win them. - Robert Moffatt

If sinners be dammed, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one GO there UNWARNED and UNPRAYED for. - Charles Spurgeon

'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say! Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face -- whose mercy you have professed to obey -- and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world. - William Booth

He is not seeking a powerful people to represent HIM. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength. - Graham Cooke

We must move away from the stand that we have become accustomed to. We must be clear that God uses man rather than what we have become accustomed to, man using God. - Pastor Dia Moodley

In Proverbs we read: ‘He that winneth souls is wise.’  If any man, women, or child by a godly life and example can win one soul to God, his life will not have been a failure. He will have outshone all the mighty men of his day, because he will have set a stream in motion that will flow on and on forever and ever.- Dwight L. Moody

Evangelization is a process of bringing the gospel to people where they are, not where you would like them to be… When the gospel reaches a people where they are, their response to the gospel is the church in a new place... - Vincent Donovan

God has huge plans for the world today! He is not content to merely establish a handful of struggling churches among each tongue, tribe and nation. Even now He is preparing and empowering His Church to carry the seeds of revival to the uttermost ends of the earth. - David Smithers

Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus. - Elton Trueblood

Being an extrovert isn’t essential to EVANGELISM – obedience and love are. - Rebecca M. Pippert

There is nothing in the world or the Church – except the church's disobedience – to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility. - Robert E. Speer

We must be global Christians with a global vision, because our God is a global God. - John Stott

No reserves.  No retreats.  No regrets.   - William Borden

Finally, Charles Spurgeon wrote in his Evening Devotionals:

Friends, in the final analysis, consider this all-important question as it applies to your life:

If indeed all are called (to serve in the salvation of men’s souls in some capacity), then what excuse can we meekly offer the Lord our Savior for responding in an apathetic way to that call? 

This is not about stirring guilt – it is about honest conviction and humble conscience before a loving God.  While we each still have breath in our lungs.

For there will be no witnessing in heaven.

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