Questioning Evangelism Quotes

“People do not reject the gospel primarily because they’re too thickheaded to get it. Unbelief grows out of other soils besides intellectual confusion. Instead, people reject the good news because they’re enslaved to other kinds of news. They’re in love with something unworthy of such devotion, and it won’t let them go.”
― Randy Newman, Questioning Evangelism

“we sometimes believe things because we want to, not because they’re true.”
― Randy Newman, Questioning Evangelism: Engaging People's Hearts the Way Jesus Did

“Many things people say about religion are self-refuting. “All religions are true” is a common example. Despite the frequency of this pronouncement—or its many variations—all religions can’t be true. If one religion claims to be the only correct path to God (as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and most other religions do), then a religion that contradicts it cannot be true.”
― Randy Newman, Questioning Evangelism: Engaging People's Hearts the Way Jesus Did

“Apparently, God doesn’t want us to know why “bad things happen to good people” because He doesn’t tell us.”
― Randy Newman, Questioning Evangelism: Engaging People's Hearts the Way Jesus Did

“Jesus Himself warned those who professed Him but never possessed Him that they would be greeted with “I never knew you.”
― Randy Newman, Questioning Evangelism: Engaging People's Hearts the Way Jesus Did

“The task of evangelism looks different if we think in this transformed way. Rather than trying to learn all of the right words, have all of the right booklets, anticipate all of the right questions, and memorize all of the right intros and Scripture, we should approach evangelism with wisdom. This means that we become people who incarnate the gospel and speak of it freely because our hearts and minds have been captivated by it. Becoming people of wisdom and compassion is the prerequisite for any evangelistic technique.”
― Randy Newman, Questioning Evangelism: Engaging People's Hearts the Way Jesus Did

“If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.”
― Randy Newman, Questioning Evangelism: Engaging People's Hearts the Way Jesus Did