CHURCH:
APATHY; EVANGELISM: URGENCY OF

In our churches we have fairly well programmed ourselves into deadness and apathy. Think of this woman running to testify the good news brimming over in her soul. If someone had halted her by grasping her garment as she ran and had said, “Sister, we are glad to see the new light in your face and we would like to have you third on the program,” she would have died along with those scribes, other Samaritans and all the rest. But she went bouncing along, eager to share the new revelation that had come to her heart. She wanted to tell the men she knew that she had found the Master, the one who had told her everything she had ever done and known.

John 4:28–29

Faith Beyond Reason, 110.