John 4:35 (NIV) Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.
Matthew 9:37 (NIV) Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few."
"The modern world is said to have made discipleship harder. But it has also made evangelism easier. Today's world is said to be multiplying crises all around us. But we must never forget that, for the gospel, each crisis is an opportunity." —Billy Graham, addressing the National Association of Evangelicals' fiftieth anniversary convention (March 5, 1992).
Elesha Hodge, comp., Today's Best Illustrations – Volumes 1-4, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: "OPPORTUNITY".
