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Last Updated: 2008 June 22.

 

Fishermen Sail Home In The Evening
Photo: Fishermen Sail Home At Dusk

Motivational Illustrations For Missions And Evangelism

Serial Topic Description Status
  Fishless Fishermen The parable of the fishermen who kept themselves busy with a lot of things and forgot to catch fish. Can we not be catching fish year after year and still be fishermen? Live
  Summer, No Electricity This native evangelist with a baby had no one to support him to pay electricity bills. The child had to survive the entire summer in intense heat. This illustration highlights the need to better support the needy, hard working, on-the-field native missionaries, as opposed to the famous and better-off itinerant preachers. Some of those who have are pampered; some of those who have not are long forgotten. Live
  Life Saving Station The life saving station on the dangerous sea coast was a hut. It soon had a great building and became like a club. They stopped saving lives. Now also the shipwrecks happen, but most people get drowned. Live
  Jesus In Your House Will you welcome Jesus physically staying at your house for a week? Will you have anything to hide? Will your life be the same? Stub
  Communion Set The story of perseverance and faith of Robert and Mary Moffat for ten long years. She asked for a friend in England for a communion set when no one was saved even after such a long time. The time the set arrived on the day when a handful were baptized. Stub
  Little Girl's Faith She prayed for a hot water bag and a doll for a dying motherless child. An unexpected consignment arrived. If she could find the hot water bag, God could not miss the doll. Stub
  John Harper Swimming around the sinking Titanic, he shared the gospel and gave his coat to a sinking man who needed it more than him. The man was finally saved, while Harper went down into the depths. Stub
  Why Not Sooner The Chinese convert asked why Hudson Taylor whose country England had the gospel for more than a hundred years did not come sooner. The father of the Chinese had searched for truth for several years and had died without finding it. Stub
  Fog Removed George Mueller on his trip to Australia on ship was hindered by fog. The Captain hesitated to pray. Mueller prayed and asked the Captain not to pray because he did not have faith and because the fog was already removed. So it was! Stub
  Edward Kimball Wavering, he entered the shoe shop and shared the gospel and thought it was a failure. D L Moody was converted and the rest is history. Stub
  William Booth In tears, William Booth said that the secret of his success was that God had him in entirety right from the beginning. Stub
  Chicken And Ham The chicken contributed a portion for the breakfast, but the ham his whole life. Stub
  Footprints In good times, there was two sets of footprints. In dark times, only one. The reason, said God, 'I was carrying you!'. Stub
  Promises Of God “And so, Mr. Morrison, you really expect that you will make an impression on the idolatry of the great Chinese empire?” “No, Sir,” replied Morrison, “I expect God will!” . Stub
  Imperfect People “Imperfect as they were, those nineteenth-century missionaries turned what some thought to be a declining Caucasian religion into the largest and most dynamic religious faith in the world”  - Ruth Tucker. Stub
  Forty Naked Martyrs One of the forty Christian soldiers who were asked to stand naked on the frozen lake denounced Christ. Immediately the officer confessed Christ, took his place, and was frozen to death with the rest in the night. Stub
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