"Major, area-wide conferences on revival and soul winning are sponsored by the Sword of the Lord, where thousands of preachers and tens of thousands of people learn how to...be filled with the Spirit for soul-winning power...."

A quote in the book by Dr. Lee Roberson:  "Most of the people who respond to the public invitation have been won to Christ by our members previous to the service."

A quote in the book by Dr. Bob Gray:  "...I learned of the availability and necessity of Holy Spirit power in which to serve the Lord and win souls for Him."  "...I determined that I wanted the breath of God, the fulness of Holy Spirit power upon my life and ministry regardless of the cost."

"The church where a man cannot feel at home without a tie, without a new suit, is not going to see many souls won."

"Often our churches have a 'junior church.'  The regular auditorium services are so stiff and formal and cold that little children do not understand, do not appreciate it, so these children are sent to the basement where a young woman teaches them how to have a formal church service.  Thus they are away from the parents and they cannot disturb the dignity of the cold, dead church upstairs!"  "Oh, we had better make the preaching and the singing such that the children can understand and be blessed and so that they can hear it and be saved."

"A mother will sometimes come with a number of small children who will not stay in the nursery, and if she cannot come with her children, she will not come at all."

"The Sunday morning service paricularly is a time for people to wear their finest clothes and sit with funeral solemnity and follow a printed schedule from which they dare not deviate."

"If our churches are to win many souls the preachers must...return to the informality of the New Testament churches...."

"If all the responsibility is left on prospective pupils to seek out the bus or to be ready on time, without someone enlisting, encouraging, and repeatedly going after them, the route will fail.  With work, prayer, faith and God's blessing, it can succeed."

I hope you enjoyed reading these quotes from an Independent Baptist preacher of days gone by.