I cannot bring Christ to my neighbor and to the world if I have not first given him to my family.

Jesus didn't die to make us safe. He died to make us dangerous! Faithfulness isn't holding the fort. It's storming the gates of hell with the light and love of Jesus Christ.

To be a missionary you don't have to cross the sea, you just have to see the cross.

The church exists for the sake of those outside it.

As a Christian, I am called to become bread for the world: bread that is taken, blessed, broken and given.

The Lord wants much more from His people than for them to be His workforce. He longs to have relationship with those who love Him and to partner with them in accomplishing His purposes.

What, in particular, might it mean to say that 'as Jesus was to Israel, so the Church should be for the world'?

Remember that you have been saved in order to serve, and you are on earth for the sole purpose of making God's love known to others.

One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future.

We will not let you choose between being a lover of God and his sovereignty and being a lover of lost people.

Dear young people, we have seen that it is the Holy Spirit who brings about the wonderful communion of believers in Jesus Christ. True to his nature as giver and gift alike, he is even now working through you. Let unifying love be your measure; abiding love your challenge; self-giving love your mission!

The Christians would stay and nurse people. Sometimes they caught the disease and died. People were astonished. What was that about? Oh, they replied, we are followers of this man Jesus. He put his life on the line to save us. So that's what we do as well.