"Postmodern preachers don't populate the pews; they connect people to the living Christ. Postmodern evangelism doesn't say to the world, 'Come to church.' Rather, it says to the church, 'Go to the world.'

"Evangelism in a culture that is transitioning from Christendom to post-Christendom is different. Postmodern evangelism is more John the Baptist than Peter and Paul. Postmodern evangelism is constructing new constituencies for Christ.

"Postmodern evangelism is recognizing that God is already at work in people's lives before we arrived on the scene, and that our role is helping people to see how God is present and active in their lives, calling them home. Postmodern evangelism is not 'I have Jesus, and you don't. How can I get you here so that I can give you my Jesus?' but 'you already know Jesus, even if you don't think you know Jesus. How can I help you see and know what you already know, and how can I know and meet your Jesus?'"
—Leonard Sweet, SoulTsunami

"If we hope to have any impact on our culture in this decade, we have to change. Our Worship is going to need to feature direct, supernatural interaction with God. This is not only timely. It's thoroughly biblical. And ironically, it is what the unchurched expect the church to do. Leith Anderson writes, 'Churches are people and places where God is expected to be present and his Book is no surprise. The churches of the twenty-first century that flourish among those seeking the supernatural will be the ones that talk about and offer authentic supernatural experiences….'

"Today when lost people have turned a deaf ear to 'churchianity' but their hearts are being drawn to spiritual things, heartfelt Christian worship can meet their need for both truth and experience, for hearing the 'claims of Christ' and seeing 'Christ in us.' Seekers can pick up a religious experience at any New Age quick-stop. But they won't get Jesus Christ in their take-out bags. Worship such as that in the Philippian jail—exaltation of the God incarnate and present with God's people—this is what seekers really need to see in our churches."
—Sally Morgenthaler, Worship Evangelism

"In the past, a great deal of effective evangelism has been done by teaching key Scripture verses about sin, grace, and salvation. Christian preachers have been able to assume the basic building blocks of a Christian world view. Even when people chose not to believe in God, it was the Christian God they chose not to believe in! Evangelism was rather like hanging washing on a clothesline that was already in place…. The problem in trying to reach postmodern people is that there is no clothesline. So when we try to hang our texts, they fall to the ground in a messy heap.

"The great challenge before the preacher is to put up the clothesline. Our task is to present the big story and to persuade postmodern people that it is true. In pursuing this, we have much to learn from our friends in northern Thailand and India. They know that it is not enough to present disconnected truths about peace or fulfillment or family life. We will certainly speak about all of these things, but we must find ways of connecting them clearly to the person and work of Jesus Christ."
—Colin S. Smith, "Keeping Christ Central in Preaching" in Telling the Truth: Evangelizing Postmoderns